OkDork

AUGUST 5, 2022

There’s a lot of good books on starting a business… But not a ton on growing or scaling. Amp it Up by Frank Slootman is a great one. But that’s not all I took away from this book. But that’s not all I took away from this book. Amp It Up Book Review: Key Takeaways. Don’t do it!

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 13, 2024

Recently, I was at the library & stood in front of a book that might be a good read. I fired up Gemini, asked it for a plot summary & a digest of the reviews before deciding to read it. I type comma+o & Gen formats the table in a few seconds. I often publish tables within these blog posts.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2023

In late 2021, Office Hours welcomed Claire Hughes-Johnson, former Stripe COO & VP at Google. During that session, she alluded to a book sharing her expertise in building exceptional teams at two of the most successful startups. That book, Scaling People : Tactics for Management & Company Building.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

As a result, business schools launch students into the real world with completely unrealistic expectations, set up to fail.” It’s as if the plan for creating a startup is: Step #1: Come up with an idea. It’s as if the plan for creating a startup is: Step #1: Come up with an idea. ” It’s true.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

We thought we were going to be talking about scale today, but we’re actually going to talk about having small dogs and raising dachshunds, based on what we were catching up on backstage with Claire. And if we’ve got time on the back end, I’ll open it up to more questions. So Tomasz, I’ll turn it over to you.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000. Robert’s article is worth reading. It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. I think Robert’s right. Too many startup execs place too much emphasis on the big stage launch. There are many problems with this: - Your chances of being selected aren’t great.

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