Chandrasekaran: In a crisis, companies should build windmills rather than bunkers
Anand Chandrasekaran · Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing · Jun 1, 2020 · at 37:04
Anand Chandrasekaran references Panera Bread CEO Niren Chowdhury's strategy of launching fresh grocery deliveries during the COVID-19 pandemic as an example of crisis agility.
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“Obviously you need to conserve cash, you need to sort of get into survival mode but also you don't want to, like, go in a bunker And hide out until everything clears, right? You want to sort of build windmills that actually start leveraging what is going on in the crisis and start to kind of turn the business around to add value”
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