Thursday, July 23
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Thursday, July 23

Day one with Anil Gupta

Coffee table chat

  • Couldn't find the entrance to WeWork
  • how have the last 6 months been?
  • what I've learned

Lunch at Italian place underneath

  • Couldn't find the restaurant and it was right underneath us
  • Bit by mosquitoes
  • Indian developers looking for jobs
  • What can we build and use their talent

Post-Lunch Whiteboard

Classic City Hire

  • Huge conference room because Anil booked a conference room at the wrong WeWork
  • I walked through my entire sales process through the actual build stage
  • Three options for new hire: (a) hire someone to take the process from Sales to Go Live; (b) Hire someone to take the site from me after Discovery and through Go Live; (c) Hire someone to work under me to do the whole process, but I remain the face of the process.
  • How many websites can a standard person do within the course of a month? Right now, this year, my clip has been one per month, but I've been doing a LOT of other things as well. I think that: One would be easy, Two would still be easy, Three website/month would get a bit harder, and Four would be the cap.

Anil's events

  • Interest in meeting "what's next" founders
  • Starting 2-hour cocktail party in January
  • Knows 10-20 people who may be interested in coming to party (+ 2-3 connectors)
  • Start this now so that when he's ready to do something big (like retreat), the list is built.
  • However, agency founders is where his passion is right now. What problem do they need to solve?

Wiser dinner

  • Went to have dinner with Leah Wiser and Becca Wiser
  • When we left, Leah tried to navigate us around to the metro and got us turned around a few times.
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