Ravi Gupta
10 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 18, 2023 by Ravi Gupta · across every show →
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Apr 18, 2023 neutral
Gupta: Optimizing for Profitability Disconnects Entirely From Creating New Products
“You know, when you move away from growth, the way to improve the business is to optimize it. It's to optimize it so that you can get a little bit more profitability, a little bit more profitability, right? And you sort of start focusing on, and you bring in pe…”
Apr 18, 2023
Gupta: Instacart Had Under One Year of Cash When He Joined
“Specifically at Instacart, you know, when I got there, we were losing a lot of money on every delivery. I was very concerned that we were going to go out of business and there was a genuine fear of our business is not going to exist. And so truly an existentia…”
Apr 18, 2023
Apr 18, 2023 positive
Gupta: Leaders Should Prioritize Hiring the 5% Who Drive 90% of Value
“And I think that eighty-twenty is conventional, five-ninety, not conventional. But my experience is closer to yours. And that is one aspect where if you think about what that means time wise, it means if you can get one of those five, right, you should spend a…”
Apr 18, 2023
Gupta: Reserving strong opinions for rare moments earns founders' attention
“And then once a year, when you say, please hear me, I think, I know I don't know as much about this as you do, but I really still feel like this is something we should do. They pay attention, right? They don't always do it, but you've earned the right for them…”
Apr 18, 2023 negative
Gupta: Rigid compensation bands harm retention of top performers
“Think about comp systems. Think about the number of times that you'll be in a company and somebody great will be like on the fence of staying. And you'll be like, well, could we do this on compensation? Could we do this on title? And they'll be like, well, the…”
Apr 18, 2023
Gupta: Top decision makers write private memos to expose their own weaknesses
“I think that, ah, the good ones, one, I think a lot of them use writing, just like you said. I think a lot of them write, and they kind of write for themselves. Because it reflects the it exposes the weaknesses of their process.”
Apr 18, 2023
Gupta: Great decision makers are impolite about whose advice they seek
“The second thing is they're actually pretty good at figuring out whose advice they want and whose advice they don't want. I think a lot of great decision makers, they are not polite when it comes to the decision. They just decide whose opinion they care about,…”
Apr 18, 2023 neutral
Gupta: Google succeeds via its internet toll product, not internal processes
“I don't think that's the reason Google successful. I think the reason Google successful is because they have a product that you have to use. Most of the time you use the internet and they effectively get to charge you a toll every time you use it. And I think …”
Apr 18, 2023
Gupta: Reaching the Professional Pinnacle Is Not Worth Sacrificing Family Presence
“If what it takes to be the best in the world at the thing that I'm doing is to lose some of those aspects that we're talking about, then I don't want it. You know, I hope I can be. I want, I am ambitious. I really want to go and try to do that. But, you know, …”