E1072 Ask Jason: Growing as a leader, managing more experienced employees as a young CEO, Consumer SaaS pricing tips, bull markets post-COVID & more

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

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🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

0:01 Jason teases today's questions
2:09 Luai: Is Uber still a hyper-growth company?
5:25 Weston: Advice on getting in front of/selling to startups/enterprises outside of our immediate VC network?
8:13 Martin: Do you have any resources, insights, or methods about how to get to the right price for a consumer subscription service?
12:58 Topher: What is a good shipping cadence for new code? How often should I be pushing code to production and releasing new updated versions of my app?
15:42 Delane: When you started your first business, what were your strengths/weaknesses as a manager/leader? What was young Jason like as a CEO, and how has he evolved into your current self?
19:28 Mary: In your early days, what was your leadership style towards people who were older/more experienced than you? What advice would you give a young founder for hiring older/experienced people?
20:57 Emily: If the worst of COVID has passed, what markets are you most bullish on Post-COVID? Where do you think we will see the most innovation going forward?
26:43 Danielle: What are some insights gained since taking your team fully remote?
35:15 Matt: Could you ever see an Uber/Lyft merger? What would need to take place for that to happen?
36:29 Chris: Would you rather invest in a high-growth, high-burn startup OR a moderate-growth, minimal-burn startup?
38:57 James: What software stack does LAUNCH use? Which apps are integral to your team's success and why?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, it's Jason. I'm here at home working from home during the coronavirus and we've got a lot of amazing questions today.
0:08.0	I just want to start out the podcast by saying we're thinking about the protest and justice here in America.
0:15.0	It's obviously heartbreaking to see what we've seen and it's also inspiring to see us
0:21.0	maybe coming to some realization that we need to rethink policing.
0:28.4	I've got a lot of thoughts and feelings on it where we've reached out to a number of
0:32.3	high profile African American founders and
0:34.9	investors and we're going to be having that conversation as well in dedicated
0:38.6	episodes and I just want to say that off the bat lest you think that we're not going
0:42.2	to cover here on the
0:42.8	podcast we're just trying to get the right people on the pod and booking guests
0:46.7	as we speak so in today's all-ask Jason somebody asked me a super-soe high-growth
0:51.9	company somebody asks about my thoughts Somebody asked me a Uber still a high growth company.
0:53.0	Somebody asks about my thoughts on pricing for consumer businesses.
0:57.5	I have a lot of thoughts on that, a lot of best practices.
1:00.0	People ask me to be introspective and talk about my strengths and weaknesses as a leader and how I've adapted over time so I put it all out there and
1:07.8	Let's just say you're either gonna love or hate working for me based on the answer. If I'm bullish on startups and which specific
1:16.6	categories post COVID-19 and if I think COVID-19 is going to have a lasting
1:22.1	impact you might be interested in my answer to that and much, much more.
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