New series! In this episode #120 w Alex Badran and Tim Doyle, learn about:
- 02:36 - Alex and Tim’s memories of meeting each other
- 03:30 - Opportunity in marketing from capital allocation and media management
- 04:10 - Probabilities and thinking in frameworks
- 04:57 - Alex’s memories of winning competitions watching cricket
- 06:56 - Grounding first principles in a logical framework from mathematics
- 08:14 - Why not enter finance post PhD in math?
- 10:38 - Career selection and matching interests and skills
- 12:07 - Balance between data and judgement in decision making
- 18:05 - Do founders have to evolve thinking from Seed stage to Series B and beyond?
- 20:28 - Drawing inference to the needs of a population for product building
- 22:02 - Role of data in performance marketing
- 23:47 - Campaign at Eucalyptus that surprised Tim the most
- 25:08 - Current phase of marketing being hyper local optimisation
- 27:06 - Finding product market fit for the second act of the business
- 33:24 - Customer problems, business problems, vision
- 35:06 - Generalist vs specialists
- 39:10 - Formulating team skill sets
- 41:15 - Combination of personalities effective at specific times and not others
- 44:18 - Outsource anything that doesn’t make your beer taste better
- 47:17 - What makes someone the best?
- 51:30 - Dreamers, leavers and settlers
- 54:50 - Transitioning from corporate to a startup
- 56:42 - Key learning for Alex and Tim in next 6 months
It’s now time to explore your curiosity. Please enjoy!
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