“It’s not relationship over rigor, but really relationship and rigor… that rigor can create the relationship.”
“I always used to say, at SendGrid, we need to be IPO worthy… you build a really rigorous and operationally disciplined machine”
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Make the company "IPO worthy" by building a rigorous, quarter-in-quarter-out operational discipline before going public
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“We call it… stay invested, stay diversified, stay disciplined… we set up the rules now before we get into the action on the market.”
“You have to standardize and get everybody on the same page and build the systems and test it, make sure it works before you automate”
“And I'm going to put all of those as source documents in my project before I even start building the model. One of the useful things I can do is AI, go build the assumptions tab for this model.”
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