Spenser Skates
8 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 15, 2023 by Spenser Skates · said 9 times in 4 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2023 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- What Venture Looks Like In 2023 | SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin + 20VC Host Harry Stebbings
- How to Navigate Strategic Change for Growth with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- The Playbook to Blending Product-Led Growth with Sales-Led Growth: Amplitude VP of APJ Mark Velthuis
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2022 3 mentions in 1 episode
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Nov 15, 2023 positive
Skates: Amplitude assigns single-threaded pillar leads across EPD for each product area
“The model that we have at Amplitude is we have deep functional experts that are supposed to be the single responsible person for each of these areas. So for governance, for data platform, for CDP, for analytics, for growth, for experimentation product, we've, …”
Nov 15, 2023
Skates: CEOs must force executives to resolve peer conflicts directly
“One of the things that is absolutely wild to me as you grow as an organization is people won't give the feedback to each other directly. They'll have one-on-ones with lots of, with you, with lots of other people complaining about, well, this person didn't do t…”
Nov 15, 2023
Skates: Innovation stalls at 50 engineers without deliberate organizational restructuring
“Almost every CEO that I talk to that goes past about 50 engineers runs into exactly this problem, and they realize they haven't spent enough time on this, so I can't overemphasize it, spending enough time on this.”
Nov 15, 2023
Nov 15, 2023 positive
Skates: B2B companies rarely fail if they build what customers request
“One of the wonderful things about SAS and B to B is your customers will literally tell you what they want and then pay you money for it when you build it. So if you use this as your north star, build what your customers ask for, it's hard to go around. It's ha…”
Nov 15, 2023
Skates: Scaling CEOs Must Evaluate Performance Rather Than Lead by Example
“The right way to do it, you don't need to create a set of dashboards to justify that they're good or bad at forecasting. You can just share the feedback, and if they can't fix it, you know, you need to up-level them. And having that confidence in your evaluati…”
Nov 15, 2023
Skates: Amplitude attrition spiked to 30% after crossing 200 employees
“As we got past that 200 milestone, I no longer could be in the weeds in every single thing, and so what happened is we went from 10% attrition overnight to 30% attrition. A 4.9 glass door score to like a three something. All these organi- what was happening wa…”
Nov 15, 2023 positive