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On April 17, 2017, my dad passed away
For the last 13 months, I worked @CBinsights and also ran his chemical manufacturing biz in India
It was acquired on June 1
Lessons, thank yous and observations here
Anand Sanwal
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Anand Sanwal
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- Guy in white shorts = VC-backed startup Guy in black shorts = bootstrapped, revenue-funded startup
00:00 - Random career tips 1. Don't get drunk at company events 2. Never write a business email while mad or frustrated 3. Don't come to 1:1s with manager w/out agenda 4. Don't take 1+ days to respond to work emails 5. Format your emails (no walls of text)
- Earlier today, I declined a $100M offer to acquire @CBinsights 1. See how it unfolded in these screenshots 2. A great reminder to never check or respond to Twitter DMs again cc: CBI board, investors & team
- Andrew Carnegie's 23 traits of an attractive personality pretty timeless advice source: The Wisdom of Success
- Don’t live in nyc but Zohran Mamdani’s rise is revealing Highlights how innumerate our society is when millions can’t spot policies that break basic math We’re increasingly illiterate in words and numbers And that illiteracy makes us easy to manipulate - by the right and left
- Group travel rule If someone else plans the whole trip, books everything, etc, and you don't like some element of it, you need to STFU
- HR people everywhere are losing their shit “I don't believe in 1-on-1s and almost no great CEO in history has ever done 1-on-1s." Brian Chesky out here throwing 💣s
00:00 - Random career tips 1. Don't get drunk at company events 2. Never write a business email while mad or frustrated 3. Don't come to 1:1s with manager w/out agenda 4. Don't take 1+ days to respond to work emails 5. Format your emails (no walls of text)
- Andrew Carnegie's 23 traits of an attractive personality pretty timeless advice source: The Wisdom of Success
- "If you're frenzied, it's you. It's not the job." Jamie Dimon on the role of a company versus where personal responsibility & accountability is needed
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