Protect the Hustle | A SaaS Podcast

Expensify's David Barrett on unconventional process

Aug 16, 2022

57:23

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David Barrett

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Episode notes

No Managers Decide What to Do

02:11

How Do You Determine How Many People You Need to Hire?

02:06

Is There a Road Map for Product Development?

04:35

Introduction

2min

How to Acquire Every Business in the World

3min

Concur Isn't Trying to Capture a Hundred % of Businesses

3min

I'vesacted for an Hour.

2min

Ike Product Lead Growth

3min

Do Adds Work Anywhere?

2min

How to Communicate a Price Optimization Change

2min

Is There a Road Map for Product Development?

5min

No Managers Decide What to Do

2min

10.

What's Your Recruiting Problem?

2min

11.

Are You Testing for Ambition, Humility?

3min

12.

How Do You Determine How Many People You Need to Hire?

2min

13.

Is That Caused Problems, Like People?

2min

14.

Is There Ever a Second Guest?

2min

15.

Do You Not Have Fear?

3min

16.

Can You Scale Two Billions of Users?

2min

17.

Optimizing for the Long Term

2min

18.

Do You Have a Profitable Business Model?

2min

19.

Is There a World Where a Channel Sales Model Can Work?

2min

20.

The Numbers Have Just Been Good.

5min

21.

Do You Think the Pin Is Back in the Grenade for the Civil War?

2min

22.

The Bar That You Set Is Not All Disagreement Has to Be Disappointing

2min

23.

We're Afraid of Humility

2min

24.

The Hardest Thing I've Learned in the Last Three Years

3min

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Topics discussed in this episode:

Marketing effectively by being unconventional
The roadmap to company-wide efficiency
Obsessing over process
Overcoming fears as an operator
The two rules for disagreeable discussions

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