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Soumya Murthy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
253 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

And you need that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

And analysis paralysis and getting too critical.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

Now, this was also a talent we found in-house.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

Really empathic and seek acceptance.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

We needed that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

When customers, big customers come in, man, they want to be heard.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

So listening, encouraging.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

But when those guys are trying to solve a problem that requires some other genius, they push too hard in their genius area,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

They try to solve everything on their own, avoid conflict.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

All of a sudden, you start going in directions you don't want to go.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

The talent pool we didn't really have in-house a whole lot, but we had enough of it in the leadership team, was around connector, or often known as agreeableness, which is seeking recognition, influencership, persuasion, improvising.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

You push that pedal too hard and you don't have other genius areas.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

Lack of detail, follow through, impulsive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

Here's a good footprint.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

Why this becomes important is as I give other case study and talent profiles, I'm going to walk you through how the founder and the leadership team would use this language continuously to say, let's stop over indexing just on numbers, but let's watch our humans.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

Let's watch our humans, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

So one example around what we did was beginner mindset, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

So when we wanted to do that market launch in the beginning, up against $300 million companies, we wanted to create our own brand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

and look big, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

But marketing talent besides me.