Sidekick
5 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 14, 2020 by Sean Weisbrot · said 28 times in 16 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2022 4 mentions in 1 episode
2021 15 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- The 90-Second Story That Gets Investors Curious Enough to Ask
- Every Startup Thinks Its Baby Is the Cutest in the Room
- The 3 Things She Gives Her Team That Nobody Ever Gave Her
- The Phantom Stock Plan Founders Use Before Going Public
- The Bezos Yawn Factor: Why No-Code Will Feel Mundane Soon
- The Truth About Funding 2,400 Companies in 70 Countries
- The Warm Intro Hierarchy Investors Won't Tell You About
- Why Credit Cards Took 35 Years — And Crypto Won't
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Why 'Life Has No Purpose' Is the Most Freeing Thing You Can Believe
- 45% of This Cancer Drug Was Fake — Here's How We Proved It
- Why Dogfooding Your Own Product Exposes What All Your Data Misses
- Too Much Publicity Can Kill Your Business — Here's Proof
- The Secret Weapon That Quietly Beats Every Competitor
- The Real Root of Burnout Isn't Workload — It's Unworthiness
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
Everything said about Sidekick, oldest first
Oct 14, 2020 positive
Naming an AI Assistant Creates an Instant Psychological Bond
“With Sidekick, you could name your assistant. And in doing so, you would be able to develop a plausibly emotional relationship with it. Emotional in the sense that You bond with it because like a dog or a cat or a child, you've given it a name. And that instan…”
Dec 3, 2020
Dec 15, 2020 positive
Weisbrot: Long-Term Release Context Makes Engineering Teams Emotionally Invested
“And so once we did that, it became much easier for them to become emotionally invested in what we were doing, even though before that, you know, they were enjoying the development and they liked the company culture and all that.”
Dec 15, 2020 negative
Weisbrot: COO Found No Sidekick Employees Knew What They Were Building
“After I hired my COO, he came in and he did a very deep review of the company from many different angles. Interviewing every single one of the employees, you know, to see what their experience has been thus far. And one of the questions he asked them was, do y…”
Mar 12, 2021 positive
Weisbrot: Provide Interviewees Critical Feedback to Test Their Coachability
“Oftentimes. They will not be perfect. So we'll say, all right, this is the pros. This is the cons of your submission. Go and fix those things and show us that you can improve. And so that gives us the chance to see like, oh, well, are they angry that we've tol…”