Tracy Young
9 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 12, 2019 by Tracy Young · said 8 times in 4 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2018 4 mentions in 1 episode
2015 2 mentions in 1 episode
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Jun 12, 2019
Jun 12, 2019
Young: Work-life balance is about output, but startup progress correlates with hours
“How, how do I think about work-life balance? It's all about the outcomes that we create. It's all about the output, you know in terms of, like, what we are able to create together. It's less about the hours. Although, I will say, as a startup, it sure seems li…”
Jun 12, 2019
Young: Executive hires fail when candidates only understand larger company scale
“And these are people who had done it before, and I think where we got it wrong was, when they did do it before, was scale. Like, they were either at a company that was way bigger, and they just had never seen a startup of this size, because it's painful at thi…”
Jun 12, 2019
Jun 12, 2019 positive
Jun 12, 2019
Jun 12, 2019
Tracy Young: Feared getting fired by PlanGrid's board before every meeting
“I remember I would, like, before every board meeting, I would just have this thought that goes through my mind, and I told you this, Kat, where I thought I was gonna get fired from my board. And I remember, like, accidentally letting that slip to my board dire…”
Jun 12, 2019 neutral
Young: PlanGrid's first 20 users were former coworkers and college classmates
“Well, our first, like, 20 users were people we had worked on construction projects with, and then people we had gone to university with, And we would just, you know, ask them to try out our software and give us feedback.”
Jun 12, 2019
Young: Leaders must timebox underperformance with clear expectations and a 3-month deadline
“So I would say the moment that we figure out someone isn't working out, time box it. It's like, oh, but there's always some excuse, right? You know, but I just don't have time. They're like pretty good. They're performing. It's like net, net. Is it positive or…”