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Academic CEOs, Junior v. Senior Engineers, and High Growth Mistakes on Boss Talk #8

Apr 1, 2021

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Acquisitions - Is There a Hard Fast Rule?

04:48

How Does Money Screw Up a Company?

01:31

The New Product Acceptance Process at Thetericks

01:57

Introduction

5min

How Much Is Too Much of a Good Thing?

2min

How to Scale Through Human Beings

2min

How Can New Bosses Protect Their Legal Rights After They Leave?

5min

What Is This Job?

3min

Is There a Difference Between School Projects and Finished Products?

5min

Are You Putting Junior Engineers on Rough Prototyping?

2min

The New Product Acceptance Process at Thetericks

2min

How Does Money Screw Up a Company?

2min

10.

Acquisitions - Is There a Hard Fast Rule?

5min

11.

I Don't Want to Hire Them, I'm Not Part of Your Company

5min

12.

Is There a Leader in Your Company That Is Not Scaling Out?

2min

13.

Are You Going to Go to Japan?

2min

14.

A Cloud Makes Is Worse

2min

15.

Is Your Product Line Ready?

3min

16.

Are You Making a Mistake in Your Product Development?

3min

17.

Do You Hire Too Many Executives Too Fast?

2min

18.

Should You Walk Because of That?

2min

19.

Are We Overpaying for Engineering?

2min

20.

The Law of the Crappiest Personaslon the Men Rod

3min

21.

You've Got to Have a Performance Base, Right?

2min

This week on Boss Talk: Why aren't there more academic CEOs? Should early stage companies hire junior or senior engineers? What are the common mistakes high growth companies make, especially when expanding into new markets? Plus: balancing pay equity with retainment, CEO legal risk and protection, and growing through acquisition.

Boss Talk is the Clubhouse show where a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi, the Founder/CEO of Databricks, discuss CEO stuff, leadership stuff, management stuff... boss stuff. Live every Tuesday 5-6pm on Clubhouse.