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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 2.

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It's about to become a lot more intense.
No, in full transparency, I need a little bit of intensity.
You know, working 20 hours a week isn't all it's cut up to be.
Are you serious?
That's inclusive of promotion.
Like it's promotion, it's voluntary and involuntary attrition.
Remove promotion.
What's that, 20%?
Performance management is not an annual thing.
And I think that's a lesson that I learned, is you do have to continuously do it.
You have to hold people accountable.
Do you worry about building a culture of fear?
Look, at Snowflake, we had a great culture.
And early on, we were firing people for underperforming.
And like I said, you don't have to fire people and be an asshole about it.
I think you can let them go, wish them the best.
Don't be a negative reference on them.
But good performers actually like to see that you get rid of bottom performers because that means they're special and it's meaningful.
You said Salesforce was like, eh.
Like MongoDB.
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