Marc Andreessen: The 6 secrets of great timing

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

As an early internet founder and iconic venture capitalist, Marc Andreessen has thought deeply about the role timing plays in a startup's success. Timing is of vital importance to any business: when to launch that first product; when to ramp up scale; when to make the move into a new market; when to pivot. Getting the timing wrong on any of these can have a catastrophic effect on your business. Getting it right will give you a key opportunity to get to scale ahead of your competitors. We've broken down some of these deep learnings about timing into today’s episode.

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0:00.0	Hi listeners, it's Chris Goethea, one of the producers here at Masters of Scale.
0:04.5	As any entrepreneur knows, partnerships are immensely important. No one scales alone.
0:09.4	But how do you build the mindset for finding, creating, and sustaining successful partnerships?
0:14.4	We answer that question and dive into the key of activating strategic partnerships
0:19.0	in the newest course in the Masters of Scale courses app. It's called the Power of Partnerships.
0:24.1	And you'll learn how to find, cultivate, and expand alliances from experts like Reed Hoffman,
0:30.0	Damon John, Stacey Abrams, Bill Gates, and more. So if you're already a Masters of Scale member,
0:36.3	jump right into the Power of Partnerships course today. And if you're not yet a member,
0:40.9	search for Masters of Scale courses in the app or Google Play Store to start your seven day
0:46.2	free trial. In just 10 minutes a day, you'll learn the tools you need to build the kinds of
0:51.3	partnerships that will unlock your business's potential. So go check it out. Again, that's
0:56.8	Power of Partnerships in the Masters of Scale courses app. Now on to today's show.
1:02.8	When we started, I mean we really had nothing to go on.
1:06.8	Because nothing had been recorded for the show yet.
1:11.2	There was no interviews or anything. So all we knew was that this was a show about founders
1:17.0	and startups. The first challenge was really just siding on a tempo.
1:26.9	Having not heard a single episode of the show that hadn't even been created yet,
1:31.8	it was tricky to know how fast, it was slow to make it, what kind of energy to give it, and all that.
1:39.7	That's Brotherly Music Composers Ryan and Hayes Holiday. Together, they've created music for films,
1:45.8	art installations, and live performances. Right now, they're talking about one piece of music,
1:51.1	you may know all too well. Ryan is the Music Director for Weight What, the company that produces
1:58.9	Masters of Scale. And together, he and Hayes composed the Masters of Scale theme.
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