Bansal: Board management dropped from 20-30% of time to 1-2% at Harness
Jyoti Bansal · Building a Second Unicorn: A Deep Dive with Harness and AppDynamics Founder Jyoti Bansal · Apr 29, 2021 · at 8:01
Jyoti Bansal compares the operational differences between leading AppDynamics and his second startup, Harness.
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“I spent a lot of time managing our board and industries. Like maybe about 20 to 30% of my time would go in there. We had, you know, All sorts of investors who needed just a lot of management. Doing it second time at Harness, it's much easier. I spend maybe one to two percent of my time managing investors on the board.”
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