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Dmitry Gurski

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
576 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

I'm against glamorization of COs and making them heroes. I even don't like when Glassdoor put a rating of CO because I believe that when a company is big, or not even big, it's much more teamwork and CO is just a role. People are just people. I always recommend not to read a book like how to be a great CEO like you have in your book library, but to read biographies about CEOs, about business.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

I'm against glamorization of COs and making them heroes. I even don't like when Glassdoor put a rating of CO because I believe that when a company is big, or not even big, it's much more teamwork and CO is just a role. People are just people. I always recommend not to read a book like how to be a great CEO like you have in your book library, but to read biographies about CEOs, about business.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

I'm against glamorization of COs and making them heroes. I even don't like when Glassdoor put a rating of CO because I believe that when a company is big, or not even big, it's much more teamwork and CO is just a role. People are just people. I always recommend not to read a book like how to be a great CEO like you have in your book library, but to read biographies about CEOs, about business.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

And you would see that even Steve Jobs, he made probably 90% of mistakes in all his decisions and many, many stupid mistakes. And he was not good altogether. Maybe the single common trait between successful and all successful CEOs I may found is decisiveness. You should make decisions. And because when you make decisions, you move forward.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

And you would see that even Steve Jobs, he made probably 90% of mistakes in all his decisions and many, many stupid mistakes. And he was not good altogether. Maybe the single common trait between successful and all successful CEOs I may found is decisiveness. You should make decisions. And because when you make decisions, you move forward.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

And you would see that even Steve Jobs, he made probably 90% of mistakes in all his decisions and many, many stupid mistakes. And he was not good altogether. Maybe the single common trait between successful and all successful CEOs I may found is decisiveness. You should make decisions. And because when you make decisions, you move forward.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

Even if decisions, when decisions are stupid, you are moving forward and you're getting new information and the next decision will be better. The worst is just this analysis paralysis, not making any decisions.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

Even if decisions, when decisions are stupid, you are moving forward and you're getting new information and the next decision will be better. The worst is just this analysis paralysis, not making any decisions.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

Even if decisions, when decisions are stupid, you are moving forward and you're getting new information and the next decision will be better. The worst is just this analysis paralysis, not making any decisions.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

Yeah, yeah. And sometimes people, they kind of, they try and find like a perfect solution, but the truth of life is that nobody knows future and nobody may make like a perfect decisions just based on information or analysis. Because if it were the case, then McKinsey or banks would be perfect business creators. But you can't see unicorns which were created by McKinsey or Banks. Why?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

Yeah, yeah. And sometimes people, they kind of, they try and find like a perfect solution, but the truth of life is that nobody knows future and nobody may make like a perfect decisions just based on information or analysis. Because if it were the case, then McKinsey or banks would be perfect business creators. But you can't see unicorns which were created by McKinsey or Banks. Why?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

Yeah, yeah. And sometimes people, they kind of, they try and find like a perfect solution, but the truth of life is that nobody knows future and nobody may make like a perfect decisions just based on information or analysis. Because if it were the case, then McKinsey or banks would be perfect business creators. But you can't see unicorns which were created by McKinsey or Banks. Why?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

Because of unpredictability of the future. And if the future is unpredictable, then what's the best? Just make any decision and move forward. Just not stay at the place. Decide something and move forward.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

Because of unpredictability of the future. And if the future is unpredictable, then what's the best? Just make any decision and move forward. Just not stay at the place. Decide something and move forward.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

Because of unpredictability of the future. And if the future is unpredictable, then what's the best? Just make any decision and move forward. Just not stay at the place. Decide something and move forward.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

I was much more optimistic about time, which would be necessary for generative AI to make impact on businesses. And because maybe two or three years after the beginning of this hype, I still don't see many examples of real business success based on generative AI. It means that maybe something in programming, maybe something in support, but it's rather tiny.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

I was much more optimistic about time, which would be necessary for generative AI to make impact on businesses. And because maybe two or three years after the beginning of this hype, I still don't see many examples of real business success based on generative AI. It means that maybe something in programming, maybe something in support, but it's rather tiny.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

I was much more optimistic about time, which would be necessary for generative AI to make impact on businesses. And because maybe two or three years after the beginning of this hype, I still don't see many examples of real business success based on generative AI. It means that maybe something in programming, maybe something in support, but it's rather tiny.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

We can't say that there is any big case, any big business which changed business model or got profitability or growth because of generative AI. And I had hope that the change would happen much faster.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

We can't say that there is any big case, any big business which changed business model or got profitability or growth because of generative AI. And I had hope that the change would happen much faster.