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OKRs

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 17, 2023 by Kellan Elliott-McCrea · across every show →

Everything said about OKRs, oldest first

Aug 17, 2023 positive
Opinion
Elliott-McCrea: OKRs have an undeserved bad reputation and work well
“I hate to say this, but at the most fundamental level, it looks a lot like OKRs, which have a bad rep, but are kind of great.”
Kellan Elliott-McCrea Aug 17, 2023 ▶ 25:42 How to supercharge your engineering org | Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Adobe, Dropbox)
Dec 10, 2025 negative
Insight
Varanasi: OKRs only work for money-printing monopolies like Google
“If you have a money printing machine, you should have that kind of stuff, but for everybody else, it's different.”
Anil Varanasi Dec 10, 2025 ▶ 4:19 Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO)
Aug 27, 2026 negative
Insight
Dictating granular OKRs prevents engineering teams from thinking independently
“If you're, as an engineering leader, dictating, like, all of the 1051 OKRs for the team, then the team doesn't think on its own. So you've got to come with the right level of that abstraction of the strategy division, the North Star, or kind of maybe the Highe…”
Jay Parikh Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 3:18 The most expensive mistake in outsourcing your tech stack | Jay Parikh (EVP CoreAI, Microsoft)
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