Nick Mehta
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Nick Mehta
@nrmehta
Startups: Gainsight (sold to Vista), LiveOffice (sold to Symantec), Chipshot (sold for parts). Boards: F5, Larridin and PubMatic. Very quirky.
San Francisco, CA
Joined October 2007
- Common reaction to a teammate resigning: 1. Why are you leaving? 2. How can we keep you? 3. Do you know you're going to regret it? Alternate Golden Rule version: 1. Thank you for your service 2. Congratulations on your new job 3. What can we learn?
- The Taylor Swift Folklore movie on Disney+ is just plain incredible. So powerful and authentic.
- I can't count the number of days where I've had to go from: A call with a teammate who is resigning to A call to recruit someone new A call with a client leaving to A sales call A call with an investor passing to A VC pitch Very few skills more important than bouncing back.
- One of the cheapest and simplest career hacks is to be hyper-responsive. I've found some of the busiest leaders in the world are also the fastest to reply to emails. Underrated skill: Being there for people when they need it.
- My evolution as a leader: Me in my 20s: "What's the playbook for this?" Me in my 30s: "Here's the playbook for this." Me in my 40s: "There is no playbook for this."
- Every SaaS application pitch ever (including ours): 1. Your data is in lots of places 2. So you use spreadsheets 3. We bring it all together 4. Profit Not a bad pitch!
- If you intend to run your company for a long time, one key role as CEO becomes being the "historian." Many people that work for you won't have the context of how your team got to where they are at - and of why things worked and didn't work. It's your job to remember the stories.
- Replying to @EricNewcomerMy biggest worry is there are many other shoes to fall across many asset classes (not just crypto). As Buffett says "A rising tide floats all boats….. only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked."
- "We're a bit unusual in that our data in our CRM is kind of messed up." -Every single company
- Every time I find myself struggling with a challenge or throwing myself a "pity party," I reread what I consider the greatest CEO blog post of all time - "Nobody Cares" by @bhorowitz:
