board

2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 21, 2025 by Kass Lazerow · across every show →

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Mar 21, 2025 negative
Insight
Ego and fear of admitting failure prevent founders from pivoting
“Half the time with pivots, it's ego, right, that you don't do the pivot. So you have founders who sit there and go, well, wait, I raise money on the first idea. I can't go back to the board and tell them that this isn't working. I can't go back to my family a…”
Kass Lazerow Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 20:50 The 'messy' path to start-up success (with Kass & Mike Lazerow from SXSW) | Masters of Scale
Sep 11, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pohlson: Omaze shifted from celebrity campaigns to prizes despite board resistance
“It inspired me when I came back from this to change the business being from Being focused on celebrities to focused on prizes. That was a huge change for us. We got a lot of resistance from our board and the team, but I was not scared of what people thought of…”
Matthew Pohlson Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 19:41 Omaze’s Matthew Pohlson on the near-death moment that built a better business | Masters of Scale
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