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“At one end of the spectrum, you'd have like a Mongo or DataRobot go to market motion - very much like sell what's on the truck, build coverage, execute. And at the other end, you've got Palantir with ex chief commercial officers of Deutsche Bank as their salespeople.”
And I think at one end of the spectrum, I think you'd have, like, a Mongo or data robot go to market motion. So very much, like, sell what's on the truck, build coverage, execute, execute, execute. An
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Business Mechanics41:52 – 42:16
“When you first start you have like 20 files. But what happens when you have sixty, seventy edge functions? Lovable is gonna read all of those, and it's gonna consume 80% of the token allocation on reading, leaving only 20% for thinking and executing.”
And then your code base gets bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. Like when you when you first start you have like 20 files. It's it can read 20 files. But what what happens when you ha
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Business Mechanics38:50 – 39:24
“So it's always when a founder asks us, can I invest in Cypress? So many of our LPs, our limited partners, are exited founders or exited executives from our teams that then invested in Cypress later on.”
Today's special segment, we have Vince Shea of Cypress. What's the best question a founder or investor has asked you? So the best question a founder or investors ask is actually the best question that
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Business Mechanics2:32 – 3:05
“From Google account executive to running Stripe's EMEA startup sales”
But we were a very, very small team. And so I saw that unit, like completely scale over my 10 in and I was an account executive and then I started meeting a sales manager. And then at the end of this
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founder story3:13 – 4:01
“Institutions do not fund brilliance. They fund calm, predictable execution. You stop chasing capital and capital starts watching you.”
...execution. So when you build this way, your fund becomes easier to explain, your life becomes less reactive, and your confidence becomes real. You stop chasing capital and capital starts watching you.
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Bold/Contrarian8:56 – 9:36
“CEO reveals his unconventional hiring strategy for building entire executive teams”
something that I'm personally quite proud of and probably will also continue doing this. I hired the entire exec team myself, and most of them just by reaching out on LinkedIn. What's your favorite q
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tactical advice12:30 – 13:05
“From executing acquisitions to building a CVC fund at ICAP”
and set up their CVC. So the first couple of things I did for them was transactional. We were a series a investor in a collateral messaging company called Acagersoft, which London Stock Exchange acqui
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founder story3:46 – 4:22
“Former Tesla executives are spinning out energy companies Tesla should have built”
that lie adjacent to data centers. And I predict that there's gonna be even more of that to come in the in in 2026 for sure. Red Redwood is another example of a former Tesla. This is JB Straubel's co
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market insight12:10 – 12:43
“The old-school briefcase trick that kept this executive on track for years”
I literally had every year I reviewed my five goals for the year and I used to back in those days because you used to carry them. I had a briefcase And on the inside of my briefcase, I would have the
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personal lesson3:57 – 4:17
...about execution, but those are more structured, execution. You have, a lot more, KPIs and KRS set in, and you're driven very differently when it's that kind of scale, a 100,000,000 to a billion. But, at least from a zero to 10 stage,
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“The brutal pressure that comes after raising VC money”
it's very, very different. It's like that every time you're like, I need to make this a billion dollar idea because once that's what we started out to do, but also because now everyone agreed with the
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personal lesson11:19 – 11:45
...execution is, like, do you group timing into execution? Because I think they couldn't they couldn't have done it quietly when they did it. And the question is, should they have done it a different way at the time? Probably. But how much better could
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the classic example of task changing. Classic example of task changing was once upon a time, executives never used typewriters or personal computers themselves. Right? You know, if you were a vice president of a company in 1970 or whatever, you did n
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...d execution sustains. We've seen examples in the space of companies that have perhaps taken their eye off of the ball. They've been slow to ship certain products and how that can really show up in the numbers. So I think first and foremost, it's easy
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sales playbook structure holds true in a very new world of AI and revenue scaling that we're seeing today? It should. Why? It should still hold true no different than, like, I think about a sports team. Sports team has a playbook, and the players hav
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They don't know what the obligations are. And so This is at Skadden. That the the top lawyers in the world, and they can't figure out the legal situation. And I can tell you, too. It's not just at Skadden. And Bob, they are 10 pages long. It's insane
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from transcript12:01 – 13:05
...execution and have nobody know what we're doing. And So the the competitive advantage is really on the execution side rather than the actual design of the product. Yeah. There's probably some of both. I mean, one thing one thing you wanna do is execu
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from transcript21:41 – 22:53
You know, if you were a vice president of a company in 1970 or whatever, you did not have, like, a typewriter or computer on your desk typing things. You had a secretary who you dictated memos to. Right? And then there and then there was this change
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...execution trace to the model to see what's going on and see the state and track the state as the code executes seems to be smart and, you know, exploits the unique situation of code environments where we can actually do these things. Mhmm. Yeah. I th
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You can have a bet with me. We've done bets before. I'm up, whatever it is, fifty or seventy five grand. Yep. Choose. I gotta I gotta whittle it down. You gotta whittle it down, baby. What's your bet gonna be? What's my bet? Yeah. Like, what what do
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