The 2 Funniest Moments On Screen In 2020

Dec 31
Taylor Misiak and Dave Burd In Dave, Maria Bakalova As Tutar In Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Taylor Misiak and Dave Burd In Dave, Maria Bakalova As Tutar In Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

I don’t laugh out loud much. I wish I did. These two moments made me laugh harder than anything else I watched in 2020.

Dave And The Milk Table

Tutar Swallows The Baby

The Evolution Of Company Leaders Alongside The Evolution Of The Company

Dec 29
Three Phases of a company often line up with the Pioneer, the Town Settler, and the City Planner leadership mindsets
Three Phases of a company often line up with the Pioneer, the Town Settler, and the City Planner leadership mindsets

I’m stealing these three phases. They came from the a16z podcast, “On Fear and Leadership: Product to Sales CTOs and CEOs” (which you can listen to at the bottom of this post). The prevailing conversation concerns a number of topics that growing leaders in growing startups face: trepidation in hiring an external CEO, all-hands meetings, recruiting talent, handling “title fetishization,” existing without CEOs (“never hire an interim CEO”).

But, to me, the beginning of the podcast outlines how the phases of the company align with the phases of company leaders. Martin Casado, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and inventor of software-defined networking, delineates three phases through which every startup goes; Armon Dadgar, the co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp, contributes the simple-but-digestible metaphorThe metaphor was originally proffered by Robert X. Cringely in his book Accidental Empires as “commandos, infantry, and police” and later popularized by Simon Wardley. that helps to explain what the leaders of a company should look like within each phase.

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