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mike cassidy is a brilliant man. he is strong promoter of speed when developing business: https://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/best-strategy-is-speed-startup2

by tehlike 10y ago

mike cassidy is a brilliant man. he is strong promoter of speed when developing business: https://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/best-strategy-is-speed-startup2startup-may-2008?src=embed https://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/best-strategy-is-speed... I am looking forward to what he achieves with his new journey.

deepGem 10y ago
Just look at his fund raising speed. 21/4: 8.15 AM pitch DFJ 4 pm get term sheet. Dev team gives notice to current jobs. Wow am truly amazed.
- FiatLuxDave 10y ago
  That may be more about DFJ than Mike Cassidy. When DFJ funded my fusion startup, it went about that fast.
andygates 10y ago
Speed and nuclear power plants don't typically go together: there's a lot of detail, and a lot of dilgence to be done, because the consequences are so awful if it screws up. NuScale just got their modular concept into the approval program, estimated conclusion of that, 2020. Don't speedy startup types typically get frustrated when faced with the real world?
- tehlike 10y ago
  Hah, that's what i kind of was thinking - i think the final product won't necessarily be a nuclear plant. maybe it will, though, who knows?
dirtyaura 10y ago
Interesting. Has anyone tried any of products his startups did build? How scrappy were they? Is his skills more in business dev, or product building?
- tehlike 10y ago
  i would guess business dev - given the time between company foundation to sale of business.
benzible 10y ago
FWIW, I remembered reading about management issues at (Google) X during his time running Project Loon and dug up the article: http://www.recode.net/2016/8/29/12663630/google-x-alphabet-moonshot http://www.recode.net/2016/8/29/12663630/google-x-alphabet-m... Sources describe most of X’s public projects — Project Loon, drones, robotics and wind energy kites — as rudderless. [...] Mike Cassidy, who stepped down from Loon, ran the team “like a fire drill,” a former employee said.
- tehlike 10y ago
  I take these with a grain of salt. Each person's style is different. For some people, working out of 5-9 is something they run away as fast as possible. For some, work is their passion. Disclaimer: Google employee.

by tehlike 10y ago

deepGem 10y ago

Just look at his fund raising speed. 21/4: 8.15 AM pitch DFJ 4 pm get term sheet. Dev team gives notice to current jobs. Wow am truly amazed.

FiatLuxDave 10y ago
That may be more about DFJ than Mike Cassidy. When DFJ funded my fusion startup, it went about that fast.

andygates 10y ago

Speed and nuclear power plants don't typically go together: there's a lot of detail, and a lot of dilgence to be done, because the consequences are so awful if it screws up. NuScale just got their modular concept into the approval program, estimated conclusion of that, 2020. Don't speedy startup types typically get frustrated when faced with the real world?

tehlike 10y ago
Hah, that's what i kind of was thinking - i think the final product won't necessarily be a nuclear plant. maybe it will, though, who knows?

dirtyaura 10y ago

Interesting. Has anyone tried any of products his startups did build? How scrappy were they? Is his skills more in business dev, or product building?

tehlike 10y ago
i would guess business dev - given the time between company foundation to sale of business.

benzible 10y ago

FWIW, I remembered reading about management issues at (Google) X during his time running Project Loon and dug up the article: http://www.recode.net/2016/8/29/12663630/google-x-alphabet-moonshot http://www.recode.net/2016/8/29/12663630/google-x-alphabet-m... Sources describe most of X’s public projects — Project Loon, drones, robotics and wind energy kites — as rudderless. [...] Mike Cassidy, who stepped down from Loon, ran the team “like a fire drill,” a former employee said.

tehlike 10y ago
I take these with a grain of salt. Each person's style is different. For some people, working out of 5-9 is something they run away as fast as possible. For some, work is their passion. Disclaimer: Google employee.