Michael Cieri
7 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 8, 2024 by Michael Cieri · across every show →
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Feb 8, 2024
Cieri: Back Ambiguous Product Bets When Leaders Articulate the Problem Well
“And a lot of times, if you find a leader that can convince you on the problem, that's where my, a lot of my like, okay, I trust the intuition on this because I can, they can reasonably articulate to me why they believe, we might not know this all yet, but like…”
Feb 8, 2024 negative
Struggling product managers merely present options instead of making definitive decisions
“I think the product people that I see struggle the most are the ones that just like, can't really make that like, well, here's all the options. And I'm like, well, it's your job to tell us what we're going to do. So what are we going to do?”
Feb 8, 2024 neutral
In 2012, over 70% of Square's merchants were individual solopreneurs
“The majority of Square businesses are solopreneurs. They're individuals, individual sellers. And, you know, the last decade or so, I think the company's really made a successful march up market. So we've got a lot of larger businesses now, but, you know, back …”
Feb 8, 2024
Cieri: The SMB software challenge is prioritization, not finding viable product adjacencies
“To me, one of the best things about working in the small business arena is just there's so many areas that we can help that I'm sure if we put effort into would work because the customer pain is there and the market's there. It's just kind of deciding how many…”
Feb 8, 2024 negative
Feb 8, 2024 positive
Cieri: Opendoor maintained an annually refreshed five-year vision under Eric Wu
“Opendoor, where it was for a brief time between Square and Gusto, I thought did an excellent job of keeping it, they did it on a five-year window, but keeping like a vision of where we were headed over a five-year timeline and always refreshing that year over …”