Chris Merritt
11 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 1, 2023 by Chris Merritt · across every show →
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Mar 1, 2023 positive
Mar 1, 2023 positive
Merritt: Startups Must Inventory Unscalable Tactics as Operational Debt
“The thing that I appended to it is take an inventory, keep a list of those things that you did that you knew were not going to scale. Because you're going to have to go back and fix a lot of those when you go, oh, well, we only did it for six. It was only supp…”
Mar 1, 2023 positive
Merritt: Calling Uncertain Initiatives Experiments Lowers Anxiety and Improves Execution
“I'm describing the, when you don't know the outcome, call it an experiment. And then everybody, at least my experience has been people's anxiety level drops. They're like, oh, okay. Experiments are cool. Go ahead. How much do you need for that? How much time d…”
Mar 1, 2023 negative
Merritt: Importing Off-the-Shelf Revenue Playbooks Too Early Usually Fails
“I think if you take, you hire somebody that has a playbook, or you bring your own playbooks, if you take them too early and just say, hey, here's what we're gonna do, I think that's like super high beta. It might work out. But the likelihood that the context f…”
Mar 1, 2023
Merritt: Solve fatigue or find internal roles before letting tenured talent leave
“I always try to retain the IP, because you spend, we spend a lot of time hiring people. We all do. You put a lot of energy into it. Sometimes you get those wrong, and sometimes people just are not a great fit later, and your responsibility is to make them find…”
Mar 1, 2023
Merritt: Do not immediately change metrics when results look bad
“If you don't like the story, don't change the metrics right away. Maybe you can, but like deprecate those things slowly if you don't think it actually matches the business, but actually watch the metrics and try to get consistency in there.”
Mar 1, 2023
Merritt: Late-Stage Executives Only Work on Uncomfortable, Unsolvable Problems
“You don't get to do the easy things. Nobody brings you, hey, I've got this problem that you can solve with like a flick of your pen. Like those things are, they're in the rear view. You are only working on uncomfortable things.”
Mar 1, 2023 positive
Merritt: Cloudflare Seeded Global Offices With Internal Employees for Months
“Before we'd opened a remote office, we always wanted somebody to seed. Preferably permanently, but at the very least for months, and preferably for years, and that motion has worked for us, and it, but I would say it did start with invest behind demand.”
Mar 1, 2023
Mar 1, 2023 positive
Merritt: Openly Discuss Competitor Poaching Attempts With Top Talent
“So it's a culture of, just assume your best people are constantly getting asked to come and do something else. It's better to have that transparency so that, one, you can figure out, like, Are some of your best employees, like, a little loose in the saddle? Be…”