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Carson: Companies should build a business first before raising venture capital
“I really think we're focusing too much on raising money. You know, I think companies should build a business and figure out, you know, how to do that and then go raise a bunch of money. That's fine, but not the other way around.”
Carson: Software engineers must relearn everything every 18 months
“And so coding, coding, unfortunately or fortunately, you have to relearn everything, 18 months.”
Ryan Carson: Founder-CEOs must personally sell before hiring any sales staff
“If you haven't built the sales team yet, and you are the founder CEO, you should be doing sales. So that's the first thing you got to do. Do not try to hire people. Do not try to do SDR. Don't do any of that. Go out and sell. And look and learn the sales cycle…”
Carson: Enterprise buyers do not care about Treehouse certificates, only skills gaps
“And what's interesting is they don't care about any treehouse certificates or points or anything. They just want to close skills gaps.”
Carson: Standard CAC to LTV is a vanity metric without gross profit
“We think people who focus on CAC to LTV is, it can be a vanity metric period because you're not actually focusing on, on gross profit LTV. So actually how much, Profit are you driving the LTV and what is the fully loaded CAC, which means you got to include you…”