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James Davies

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
208 total appearances

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

And this year, I think is going to be a telltale year for AI where it's not just a hype thing, but it's how do I get the most value out of this?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

I lucked out because as the COO, I did most of the hires of our leadership team that was in place.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

And so I've got just A-plus players there.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

The way I've organized the company is into just, we're a smaller company, we're just over 30 employees, is into just basically four buckets.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

We've got growth, and I talked a little bit about that.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

product, and that's everything product.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

A success team, and the success teams runs our support.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

They run customer success in general.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

They run implementations and delivery if our customers need help getting our software up and running.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

And then finally, operations.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

So I basically have four leaders.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

Those are my four direct reports.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

The number one attribute that I look for in my leader hires is curiosity.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

I'm constantly looking because we don't have it all figured out.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

I'm looking for leaders that aren't necessarily looking to be told what to do, but who will be curious to find new solutions.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

They'll find inefficiencies and they'll raise them and they'll actually do something about them and really grab them, pull up their bootstraps by themselves.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

And we luckily now have a culture that's just like that.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

And I think the team's able to follow along and follow through because of the way that I lead with a lot of transparency.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

We're a super open company.