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These are all full-time jobs by $1m ARR. Fixing it yourself becomes the biggest time sink and excuse for not hiring there is. You end up spending all your time backfilling roles you should have hired. And even worse, you often sort of give up trying to make the hire. And hire against it. More here.

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Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. And I get a call on my phone from our bank, Citibank, Greg, my banker, for years through 2008, like, “Greg, how you doing? Citibank’s the largest bank in the world?” Do I put it in Silicon Valley Bank?

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Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. in debt to buy out their investors.

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JULY 28, 2021

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. It was created by an accountant at a bank in Nebraska. Humility allows you to do the pivots, allows you to capitalize on a great idea no matter whose idea it is. Venture capitals are playing a numbers game. I really tried and never lose a game of chicken.

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Angus Davis: Foundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. We were part of the office of the CTO. At that time, Marc Andreessen, the founder was the CTO of the company and there were only three of us in the group. We invest in technology companies typically at the earliest stages.

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