Building the Machine: Recent Episodes
Eric Friedman
A show about people building the "machine" inside organizations to help grow their businesses. Whether a founder solving a need, an operator focusing on the fundamentals of a company, or employees scaling product, design, engineering, and other machines - we interview great people on their journeys and lessons learned.
Full episode notes and transcript here:
https://www.ericgfriedman.com/2021/08/18/building-the-machine-podcast-episode-5-dan-kimerling-deciens-capital/
- Evan Walden, CEO of Monday.vc
- Deep dive into where the business started
- Where they ended up, powering the job boards and growing revenue from VC firms
Show notes for Alex MacCaw & Eric Friedman interview diving deep into Clearbit and how he is Building The Machine.
- How the leadership and 1:1s run via Notion
- Origin of the company and how the team was formed - now at 100 (SF + distributed across US)
- Understanding the leadership team + structure + going remote so early
- What tools, services, and software stack are used inside Clearbit?
- Diving deep into Asana, Slack, Zoom, and Notion amongst others.
- How do they choose tools that multiple people use vs. personal tools?
- What the early days of 5 people vs. 100 people today what are the challenges of doubling in size of the team?
- Where do things breakdown with the team and at what size?
- The role of executive coaching with a founder
- When OKRs were implemented?
- How impeccable agreements work and how the WHO and WHEN of a professional contract works within Clearbit - this is a way to track accountability and negotiating deliverables and how they are tracked within the firm.
- How the internal "intranet" works and how things are organized.
- AORs vs OKRs
- Tactical takeaways or almost any manager or IC
Thanks for joining this journey, I am excited to welcome you to a series of interviews with real operators standing up key pillars within organizations. Sometimes its hearing directly from the founder, other times its the unsung heroes within a startup building the machine that makes the flywheel spin. I am embarking on interviewing folks behind the scenes, who don't usually crave the spotlight, to hear how its done, whats working, and what is not.