Jay Matthews

Planning is sacred, plans are not

This may be an inverse-U-shaped curve. As you can imagine, very early on, it's a picker's game, meaning, for example, with Pioneer, extremely early. We can pick whoever we want. Very late stage in the cap table, it's also a picker's game. I mean, obviously the company's public for the most part. Hedge funds are in the game of picking, not in the

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“Frank is really collecting this kind of brainpower around him,” says Niemi. “He’s the attraction, the magnet who gets people to come together.”

Understanding and empathising with a persona’s behavioural patterns puts the user at the forefront of the solution, ensuring a well-rounded product catering to both business and user needs.

A. Trust your instinct

Trends: thriving in the new world of work (annual review on org psych)

- key things changing around alt work arrangements

- fixed schedule, full-time work, at firm's place of business

- changing based on the kind of work 

- if people have control over: when they work, where they work, conditions in which contracts are solidified, can have different

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And probably, the most predictive one we have is, "What is something weird or unusual you built or did early on in life?" I find it so astonishing in how polar it is. Someone will tell you about, "I accidentally got my high school teacher fired." And then someone will say something incredibly bland. "I did a 10-mile hike." To me, it really explains

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