Dan Siroker

5 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 7, 2017 by Dan Siroker · across every show →

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Jul 7, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Siroker personally interviewed Optimizely's first 100 hires
“I interviewed the first hundred people at Optimizely, and that means I also interviewed probably the other, you know 209 hundred, whatever people that we didn't hire.”
Dan Siroker Jul 7, 2017 ▶ 14:38 How to Break Out and Really Scale
Jul 7, 2017 negative
What-if
Siroker: Optimizely would have benefited early on from vertical focus
“If I had to give myself advice to a past version of myself, I think a lot about that, and I think about optimization. I think that it would have actually served us better to be more narrowly focused on a set of customers and deeply empathize with their biggest…”
Dan Siroker Jul 7, 2017 ▶ 11:37 How to Break Out and Really Scale
Jul 7, 2017 positive
Insight
Siroker: Codifying company culture early creates hiring consistency on 'culture fit'
“Why did we start so early codifying our culture? It started really with this pragmatic need to be consistent. We would interview a bunch of people, ah, on a day, and at the end of the day, the interviewers would get together and do a sync meeting. And soon I'd…”
Dan Siroker Jul 7, 2017 ▶ 16:03 How to Break Out and Really Scale
Jul 7, 2017 positive
Insight
Secure six paying reference customers before scaling a second product's go-to-market
“Looking back, what I would, wish I had done differently is, is have a small team of folks working on getting six reference customers who are using the product, paying for the product, and are willing to be public spokespeople for the product as a way, ah, to r…”
Dan Siroker Jul 7, 2017 ▶ 31:04 How to Break Out and Really Scale
Jul 7, 2017 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Optimizely hit a $10M run rate before raising a Series A
“Dan raised a series A when I think you were already ten million dollar run rate. He went from a million to ten million on almost no capital.”
Ajay Agarwal Jul 7, 2017 ▶ 6:43 How to Break Out and Really Scale
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