• Manifund - spend 20% of effort on

• 12 months of runway; implicit deadline is 6 months. Factor 2-3 months of severance, etc just in case

  • VCs - raise 12 months

• To work on this - float terms from bridge people

• Have a consumer product that people like

  • If we’re trying to grow: use that as the north star metric
  • Invest in things that takes 2 weeks, and we know they’ve succeeded in 1 month
  • Expect so much growth potential
  • Barak would like to see: doubling month over month

• in 3 years; 1M MAU

  • in 2 years; 300k MAU
  • Multiply by 100 in a year

• Target: at all hands, look at

  • Per project: we spend 10%, like a 3day project, do a day on, calibrating our
  • Amplitude: I joined from X action
    • If it’s <10m to add. In review: See: “we thought would do X”, and see that 5% are coming from X
  • Default dead - need to fix
  • 5 minutes every all-hands tracking: 10x in 6 months
  • 2x every 2 months
    • Internal slack culture: when we launch, we assess: did this have an impact

Weekly All Hands

• State of biz
• Demos?
• Biggest win of the week, kudos
• Learning of the week, opportunities to improve
• 1h; more polished
• As an engineer: know what things did

Standup

• Focus on actual standup
  • If riffing for 40 min
  • Shift more of “riffing” onto a specific meeting, where people put more thought into it
• Notion is shared a day in advance?