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Therese Tucker

15 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 22, 2018 by Therese Tucker · said 3 times in 1 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Jun 22, 2018
Insight
Tucker: Anyone talked out of starting a company wouldn't succeed anyway
“People always ask me for my advice to entrepreneurs, and I say, don't do it. Don't do it. And they're sort of puzzled by that, and my view is that if you take my advice, you never would have made it anyway, ok? But, if you shrug it off, and you go, yeah, what …”
Therese Tucker Jun 22, 2018 ▶ 32:01 Busting the Myths About Startup Success with Blackline's Founder-CEO
Jun 22, 2018 negative
What-if
Tucker: BlackLine would be dead if she took early bad VC advice
“Had I taken that advice, I doubt, and money, I doubt that Blackline would be here today.”
Therese Tucker Jun 22, 2018 ▶ 20:06 Busting the Myths About Startup Success with Blackline's Founder-CEO
Jun 22, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tucker: BlackLine's core accounting software idea came from a bank accountant
“Optimizing accounting operations was not my big idea. How embarrassing is that? It was created by an accountant at a bank in Nebraska.”
Therese Tucker Jun 22, 2018 ▶ 12:26 Busting the Myths About Startup Success with Blackline's Founder-CEO
Jun 22, 2018 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tucker: BlackLine's first marketing hire previously sold house awnings
“My first engineer was a guy who had not yet finished his coding class. Alright. My first marketing guy was a guy whose previous job was selling awnings. Yes, awnings for houses. Ok. He was fabulous. He's still with the company. So, oh, and the first engineer's…”
Therese Tucker Jun 22, 2018 ▶ 25:12 Busting the Myths About Startup Success with Blackline's Founder-CEO
Jun 22, 2018 negative
Insight
Tucker: There is no universal startup playbook; what works for one sinks another
“If there was a playbook that worked for everybody, then everybody would go out and make a gazillion dollars, and we'd all be happy. But, it's not like that. Companies are like people. They have a unique DNA. They have a unique culture. What might work beautifu…”
Therese Tucker Jun 22, 2018 ▶ 5:46 Busting the Myths About Startup Success with Blackline's Founder-CEO
Jun 22, 2018
Insight
Tucker: Startup hiring forces a trade-off between cost, talent, and eccentricity
“If you go with good, but they're not cheap, alright, guess what? You're gonna run out of money. If you go with cheap and not crazy, your product is gonna suffer, ok?”
Therese Tucker Jun 22, 2018 ▶ 23:32 Busting the Myths About Startup Success with Blackline's Founder-CEO
Jun 22, 2018 positive
Insight
Tucker: The best businesses often arise in unsexy, overlooked sectors like accounting
“Because accounting is probably the least sexy field out there, and yet there's a point to that, because sometimes the best businesses are the areas that other people have overlooked because they're not terribly interesting, alright?”
Therese Tucker Jun 22, 2018 ▶ 4:20 Busting the Myths About Startup Success with Blackline's Founder-CEO
Jun 22, 2018
Assertion Supported
Tucker: BlackLine had one paying customer after three years of building
“Blackline started out by building wealth management software. I knew how to do that. I was great at it. After three years, we had one paying customer.”
Therese Tucker Jun 22, 2018 ▶ 11:49 Busting the Myths About Startup Success with Blackline's Founder-CEO
Jan 9, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tucker: BlackLine Received 14 Sealed Buyout Offers During PE Sale
“We had 14 offers sealed offers, and so it was a real process, and we did not, I did not have that level of conversations with all of them, but there were several.”
Therese Tucker Jan 9, 2021 ▶ 11:38 Going Long: The 20-year Journey of Being a CEO + Founder with BlackLine | SaaStr Software Community
Jan 9, 2021
Disclosure
Tucker: I Hit the Founder Burnout Wall 20 Times in 20 Years
“Oh, fourth time? I would say more like 20th time, right? I mean, you know, and in the early days, those, you hit the wall a lot more often.”
Therese Tucker Jan 9, 2021 ▶ 5:01 Going Long: The 20-year Journey of Being a CEO + Founder with BlackLine | SaaStr Software Community
Jan 9, 2021 positive
Assertion Supported
Tucker: Still the largest shareholder in BlackLine
“To this day, I'm still the largest shareholder.”
Therese Tucker Jan 9, 2021 ▶ 23:33 Going Long: The 20-year Journey of Being a CEO + Founder with BlackLine | SaaStr Software Community
Jan 9, 2021 negative
Insight
Tucker: Hiding Company Flaws Never Pays and Stems From Insecurity
“It never pays and most people hide it out of insecurity.”
Therese Tucker Jan 9, 2021 ▶ 13:36 Going Long: The 20-year Journey of Being a CEO + Founder with BlackLine | SaaStr Software Community
Jan 9, 2021 positive
Insight
Tucker: Cut Startup Sales Forecasts in Half and Double the Timeline
“When we used to do sales forecast I had a very wise board member who would say, cut it in half and take it out twice as long.”
Therese Tucker Jan 9, 2021 ▶ 22:03 Going Long: The 20-year Journey of Being a CEO + Founder with BlackLine | SaaStr Software Community
Jan 9, 2021 negative
Insight
Tucker: Delay Raising Capital to Preserve Control and Focus
“So it's not like you can do them both at the same time and get the same results. Nobody has that kind of bandwidth. All right. So if you've got the opportunity, if you can not take the money, wait as long as you can.”
Therese Tucker Jan 9, 2021 ▶ 24:37 Going Long: The 20-year Journey of Being a CEO + Founder with BlackLine | SaaStr Software Community
Jan 9, 2021 negative
Insight
Tucker: You Have Outgrown an Exec When Their Answer Is 'More'
“To a person, I knew that we had outgrown the executive when the answer was do more of the same.”
Therese Tucker Jan 9, 2021 ▶ 30:47 Going Long: The 20-year Journey of Being a CEO + Founder with BlackLine | SaaStr Software Community
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