“I was making 100 cold calls a day trying to flog recruitment services rather than delivering it.”
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Said on Inside The Pipeline: B2B Sales and GTM
“If you build enough, if you invest into enough great founders… one of them will break and then people will call you lucky… you really do have to create your own luck”
How I Invest with David Weisburd · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of War
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advise founders to treat luck as a probabilistic portfolio and focus on upstream actions (meeting people, product development, hiring) rather than waiting for random events
Said nearby on the same subject
“He's talking about spending two, three hours a day on his hiring decision. The first call he makes is to the recruiter. The last call of the day he makes is to the recruiter.”
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Said on The CEO Signal
“Our product is awesome… the product is carrying the marketing… enterprises will see you as more trustworthy, recruits will see you as legit”
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Said on The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built - with Matt Turck
“We recruited the team that managed a mass, a much larger business. A bit like bringing in an asset manager who was managing $100 billion to go manage a billion dollar portfolio.”
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