Insights from lunch with Manish and Ketan

  • The tech industry is cyclical
    • Consumer Tech is going out of trendy and
    • enterprise is coming into trend
  • Look up for parallels, for example case studies for how the following company grew
    • New Relic
    • Rubrik
  • Co-founder discussions
    • 4 year vesting, 1 year cliff
    • Clarify edge cases like board seat, shares and voting rights in the event of death
    • Date first before marriage
      • need to test them on smaller scope to see if they can deliver (remunerate with profit sharing)
      • if they prove themselves overtime, start exploring larger scope where they can work together (consider with shares)
  • Team configuration
    • product development
      • product management
      • engineering
      • design
    • Enterprise sales
    • Finance – much later when sales is happening

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