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Barry McCarthy

lines on the record: 52
first: 2022-12-19
most recent: 2022-12-19
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Got involved in starts in 1980s when I was first bossed and they pulled together an investment pool and we're investing in startups and I was invited to participate in that group, the venture capital investor. And I spent seven years doing it. I made just about every mistake you could possibly make. But along the way, I realized that I wanted to be an operating guy. And then it took me quite a while to convince someone to hire me. And my first operating role, eventually that led me to read Hastings Door Step in 1999 when it was the 48th employee and then the rest sort of history. And then with respect to Peloton, I was comfortably retired and an avid Peloton fan user and had many years of successful association with TCP, those co-investors in Netflix and co-investors in Fother By and read about some of the difficulties in the business and thought it was particularly relevant coincidentally. Things I'd done in my career that gave me some insights into maybe some of the challenges that we're facing and possibly some of the fixes. I was saying just to play another”
2022-12-19 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy on Leadership Lessons Learned from Reed Hastings and Daniel Ek, What is Peloton's Competitive Advantage and Why Peloton is a Team and Not a Family · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Brand is golden user experience is platinum and always has been. So there are many mistakes that may walk away. But from the get-go, it's had product market fit. And despite all of the footfalls, it is never once damaged the product market fit.”
2022-12-19 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy on Leadership Lessons Learned from Reed Hastings and Daniel Ek, What is Peloton's Competitive Advantage and Why Peloton is a Team and Not a Family · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source