Tracy Young on Scaling PlanGrid to 400+ People with YC Partner Kat Manalac
发布时间 2019-06-12 13:28:31 来源
摘要
Tracy Young is a cofounder and the CEO of PlanGrid. PlanGrid makes mobile construction productivity software. They were acquired by Autodesk in 2018 and were part of YC’s Winter 2012 batch.
https://twitter.com/Tracy_Young
https://www.plangrid.com/
Kat Manalac is a Partner at YC.
https://twitter.com/KatManalac
The YC Podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
https://twitter.com/craigcannon
Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year.
Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/
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Topics
00:15 - How Tracy got into the construction industry
2:20 - What convinced Tracy and her cofounders to build PlanGrid?
3:00 - Finding a technical cofounder
5:55 - Tracy still sees herself as an engineer
6:45 - PlanGrid's MVP and their first customers
11:25 - Their sales process
13:15 - Product breakthroughs
16:50 - Not firing fast enough
20:00 - What does she look for when hiring someone?
25:30 - Tim Cook's closing statement at WWDC
28:15 - Fredi Fernández asks - Does Tracy track wellness levels of the team?
28:55 - At what point did Tracy hire an office manager?
29:50 - How does Tracy take care of herself?
31:15 - Founding a company with a partner
33:00 - Managing a company as a new parent
35:15 - Seyed Rasoul Jabari asks - What's your big plan to go from 1.5 to 10 million projects?
36:15 - Holly asks - What has been your single largest influence in helping you scale?
37:35 - Why do some executives not work out?
38:25 - What skills did Tracy have to work on when scaling?
42:10 - What do a lot of startups get wrong?
45:50 - Tracy's recommended books
47:30 - What Tracy wishes she knew when she started out
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