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Fake it til you make it
Hi there,
A recent article about unicorn Vice Media in New York Magazine is pretty fantastic. Check The Industry Standard below for the article as it references our data.
This part in particular was great.
To look bigger for a meeting with Intel, Vice basically faked having a dope office.
I suspect some folks will find this to be a genius move. Fake it til you make it and all that good stuff.
And others will think it's unethical.
What do you think?
BTW, Smith wasn't done after just getting the office, as the article highlights:
Hungry
Got tons of great feedback and ideas in response to last week's newsletter about maintaining a culture of hunger in a scaling organization.
Will aggregate and send some thoughts/strategies folks shared.
One great question I got from a fellow founder was: how do you really know if there is a lack of hunger? I'm not sure there is a way to know with data vs it being a feeling or at best, based on anecdata.
Perhaps if revenue/employee count is declining? Not sure.
We love data here at CB Insights, but ultimately, calculating a complacency score seems difficult.
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The Industry Standard
CB Insights data is the most trusted by those in the industry and the media. A few recent hits.
New York Magazine. Reeves Wiedeman (@reeveswiedeman) explores Vice Media's history and uncertain future and cites CB Insights valuation data.
Forbes. Louis Columbus (@LouisColumbus) writes about the ways in which machine learning is changing supply chain management and cites CB Insights’ Supply Chain & Logistics Report.
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