Chris Degnan

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1,056 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 23 May

Chris Degnan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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99% of them are not.

Why?

Because they've never been operators.

So they're just regurgitating something they heard in another board meeting that they think might be of interest.

I was on a board call.

I was on a board call of a seed stage company.

And one of the VCs got in and said, when are we going to do our first million dollar deal?

I was like, dude, how about you shut the fuck up?

I mean, it's like, what value is that at all?

That's the best advice I've ever heard.

Thank you for that.

I think the best board member that I've ever seen is Mike Spicer.

In building Snowflake, that guy was so, he was a founder of the company.

And then he was so involved in the product.

When he didn't know about sales, that's why he brought in John McMahon to be on the board of Snowflake.

Like there's like, he knows where he's good at and he knows where he's not.

And he's super valuable.

So he literally probably the best board member I've seen.

Yeah, Mike's amazing.

Yeah.

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