France, every mention
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every year anyone Lenny Rachitsky 19Benjamin Lauzier 5Rory Sutherland 4Tanguy Crusson 2Nabeel S. Qureshi 2Gina Gotthilf 2Alistair Croll 2Uri Levine 1Shreyas Doshi 1Meltem Kuran Berkowitz 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where France comes up
Brian Chesky's secret mentor who scaled Airbnb (after dying 9 times & building a hotel empire)
- ▶ 26:42 Chip Conley And she said to me, no, in my, in my part of France, a confidant is somebody who gives you confidence.
The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
- ▶ 47:07 Dan Shipper So we did like a team retreat in France last year, and he like taught us all how to make croissants.
Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
- ▶ 1:13:07 Mayur Kamat Uh, let me just go focus on some of the compliance challenges that we have or fraud issues that we have in France.
How Revolut trains world-class PMs: The “Local CEO” model, raw intellect & building wow products
- ▶ 13:11 Dmitry Zlokazov For example, a branch for France, a branch for Germany, or a branch for Italy.
How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
- ▶ 38:05 Lenny Rachitsky Also, you moved to France, I think, for this. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:22 Nabeel S. Qureshi And so in a scenario like that, you might still have forward deployed engineers, but they're not really, they're not going to France and spending five days a week in a factory.
- ▶ 1:33:32 Nabeel S. Qureshi And so he would always tell them every week, like, imagine the, there's a Gothic cathedral in France called Charges, and, um, he would say, you have to aim for Charges.
Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alistair Croll
- ▶ 44:19 Alistair Croll So in, um, I think, 16th century France, obviously the speed of messages is very important for the war effort. 2 times in the scene
How marketplaces win: Liquidity, growth levers, quality, more | Benjamin Lauzier (Lyft, Thumbtack)
- ▶ 59:52 Lenny Rachitsky So, but before that, so you, you're living in France now. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:12 Benjamin Lauzier I think that the French employment model, uh, is less conducive to like this type of dynamic, uh, because employment is like much more rigid. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:37 Benjamin Lauzier Uh, what brought me there is my wife started to have some, uh, health issues, but, uh, three years ago now, it's partially why we decided to move to France last year, just for a couple of years.
- ▶ 1:20:43 Lenny Rachitsky And I know you live in a mountainy part of France, so you've done it. 3 times in the scene
What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author)
- ▶ 12:01 Rory Sutherland We do not want to sell it by selling them in France.
- ▶ 19:56 Rory Sutherland And there was a famous experiment actually, which I think originated in France where they said, you know, this ship stops, you know, uh, you know, 27 goats get on, three sheep get off, then, then they add 25 cows.
- ▶ 41:08 Rory Sutherland And if you're a famous Belgian, everybody assumes you're French, unless you're a painter from the middle ages, in which case you're not called Belgian at all. 2 times in the scene
Hard-won lessons building 0 to 1 inside Atlassian | Tanguy Crusson (Head of Jira Product Discovery)
- ▶ 1:12:41 Tanguy Crusson I was like, shit, I'm based in France.
- ▶ 1:14:15 Lenny Rachitsky Working on this thing in, uh, in France.
- ▶ 1:49:09 Tanguy Crusson And that's, uh, what the existentialists back in France, uh, many generations ago, we're talking about, uh, this one is kind of close to Albert Camus, uh, uh, thesis, right?
Lessons from a 2-time unicorn builder, 50-time startup advisor and 20-time board member | Uri Levine
- ▶ 24:24 Uri Levine In Europe, one country after that, or Italy first, and then France, and Netherlands, and Sweden, and Spain, and one country after that.
Failure
- ▶ 49:54 Gina Gotthilf Across the world, Japan, China, Korea, Turkey, Spain, France, et cetera.
Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf
- ▶ 13:44 Gina Gotthilf And then they ended up asking me to come on full time, do that across the world, Japan, China, Korea, Turkey, Spain, France, et cetera.
An inside look at Deel’s unprecedented growth | Meltem Kuran Berkowitz (Head of Growth)
- ▶ 45:35 Meltem Kuran Berkowitz We have a lot of customers that ask people to go back to their offices, but now they have offices in Germany and in Canada and in US and in France.
Relentless curiosity, radical accountability, and HubSpot’s winning growth formula | Chris Miller
- ▶ 28:47 Lenny Rachitsky And especially in France, they were just like, I don't trust Facebook.
The power of strategic narrative | Andy Raskin
- ▶ 34:35 Andy Raskin So Nick was in France and he saw this poster from, uh, a recruiting poster for McDonald's.
Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)
- ▶ 1:14:41 Josh Miller The designer based in Leon, France is, is incredible.
Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)
- ▶ 4:35 Jules Walter I was a GM for a company based out of France and also overseeing West Africa business for them.
How Notion leveraged community to build a $10B business | Camille Ricketts
- ▶ 17:10 Camille Ricketts Um, so that really helped on the international scale of spreading ubiquity and ended up lending itself to like relationships with Station F in France, which is the biggest startup campus in Paris.
The art of product management | Shreyas Doshi (Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo)
- ▶ 7:11 Shreyas Doshi Maybe I'll go to France, learn the language a little more, and maybe I'll teach French.