Ted Glasnow

It's...not just unions, but the municipalities, the planners, the permitting offices, the inspectors, the cities. They're all going to have an opinion and a view on us. We'll be under the radar for a little bit, of course.

I think it's useful to distinguish between "enterprise" plans, which are the most expensive self-serve plan that you're talking about with Figma, and an "invoiced" plan, which is a plan where the sales team needs to be involved because they're negotiating with the procurement team, they're doing a security review, they're putting in a bunch of... See more

Market “pull” comes in many forms, [such as] a n inflection in organic growth, c ustomers asking to pay for the product before you ask, u sers flip from being excited about what you have to mad about what you don’t have, c ustomers complaining when your site goes down, p eople using the product even when it’s broken

Michael Porter...found that there are only tow paths to winning a market.

1. Operational effectiveness : Performing activities better than rivals 2. Differentiating: Performing activities differently, or performing different activities, thanrivals

The Chief Business Officer can be know as the "Chief Get-shit-done Officer" or the main interface between customers, partners, and investors

Another way to think about [expanding a company into an adjacent market] is, will this new offering contribute back to your growth function. Let's say that for a marketplace, growth is a function of GMV, take rate, frequency of orders, size of orders, AOV, all that stuff. The new product offering should have a neutral to positive impact on those... See more

Wave two, which we're entering now—and Fy is very much a part of this—is broadly fermented proteins.

Teams (i.e. cross-functional product teams) are responsible for:1) Developing execution plans that support the high-level strategy2) Highlighting gaps & risks with the final plan3) Committing to a goal, with a given level of resources