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đĄMust-read de la semaine
Chaque semaine, je publie un must-read, que vous choisissez.
đConstruire une entreprise moderne par Tobi Lutke, le co-fondateur et PDG de Shopify (Invest Like the Best, EP.173)
What does quality mean?
Quality is a sort of a hard concept because it's not quantifiable.Â
This is partly why it's so hard to manage for the business world of today because there is this sort of disease where everything needs to be quantifiable, if it can't be stated in an OKR then apparently it doesn't exist.Â
And so, it ends up being a nebulous concept. A lot of people don't like it as a concept just because again: how do I create the checklist to figure out if it is a quality product? Well, you don't, you make it, you use it and you understand the problem it's trying to solve and then you make a judgment.
It's like does this feel right? It's partly the way it looks and partly the way it talks to you. It's everything from the frame rate of animations to the copywriting to the precision of illustrations, and all the way down to the architecture.
Jâadore cette notion de qualitĂ©, et Ă quel point câest difficile de la dĂ©finir. Câest une discussion que nous avons trĂšs souvent chez Alan : comment mesure-t-on le delight ? En fait, câest trĂšs difficile, et ce nâest pas parce quâon ne sait pas mesurer quâil ne faut pas travailler dessus. Câest lâintuition de quâest-ce que la qualitĂ© dâun produit qui fait la diffĂ©rence.
Building context inside of a company and making it scale
Shopify is about 6,000 people and it's a high context company. To be very successful at Shopify, you kind of have to understand the thinking of Shopify and it's one of the most important things for us.
We host a weekly podcast within Shopify, which is internal only context, and literally the topic is âlet's go back to Major decisions and talk about all the comparables that we have considered and how did it work out?â.
Because again, you only ever get the result for a decision with hindsight and there's of course the hindsight bias so everyone says âoh we should have known thisâ.Â
Shopify is a default to open company, so like which really means that by default everything is shared but it's not a context through push company, what that means is it is your own job to get the information outside of your direct line of work, what you think is relevant for you to build up your understanding.Â
This is a very clearly communicated piece of information to people in fact during the hiring process. They say âyou will do better if you have a little bit of archaeology tendencies and it's an important part of being successful hereâ. Setting the expectation is really important.
La culture de la transparence est trĂšs similaire Ă celle dâAlan. Chez nous, on parle de âpublic-firstâ et âlead with contextâ. En effet, il faut savoir ĂȘtre un bon archĂ©ologue, savoir chercher la bonne information, supprimer ses notifications, pour ĂȘtre performant chez Alan. Il est trĂšs important dâĂȘtre explicite sur ses valeurs durant le processus de recrutement.
đŻConstruire une entreprise
En plus dâarticles triĂ©s sur le volet, je partage un principe de leadership dâAlan par semaine. Le mĂȘme que je partage en interne et Ă nos investisseurs tous les mercredis.
đRendre toute lâinformation accessible (Healthy Business)
Nous sommes trĂšs transparents en interne, car nous sommes convaincus que chaque Alaner conservera les informations Ă l'intĂ©rieur de l'entreprise. Ce que nous partageons entre Alaners ne peut pas ĂȘtre partagĂ© Ă l'extĂ©rieur. Il faut un haut niveau de confiance pour cela.
Pourquoi procĂ©der ainsi ? Nous sommes des dĂ©fenseurs de lâoptimisation globale (faire confiance Ă lâĂ©quipe, donner toutes les informations nĂ©cessaires pour rĂ©ussir et ĂȘtre transparent) plutĂŽt que de lâoptimisation locale (avoir des conversations privĂ©es pour Ă©viter une fuite).
đ La courbe de marchĂ© (âMarket Curveâ) pour comprendre Ă qui on sâadresse et comment dĂ©finir son marchĂ© accessible (Sequoia)
For the best pitches, itâs clear the founders have an intuitive understanding of the problem and how their product will be a novel solution loved by users.Â
The simplest and most important way to think about market size is (a) how many potential customers are there and (b) what might each customer be worth to you.
âTwo questions, please â what % of the Fortune 2000 will ultimately buy this product? And how much will they be worth to you on average?â
Zoom is unusual in that it now basically serves all markets, but it helps show the power of having a viral, bottoms-up product in the enterprise â they have almost three orders of magnitude more customers than a typical enterprise-focused vendor.
đNe pas prendre peur Ă la premiĂšre coupure et comment ne pas sur-rĂ©agir Ă tout (Signal vs. Noise)
Many policies are organizational scar tissueâââcodified overreactions to situations that are unlikely to happen again.
The second something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to create a policy. âSomeoneâs wearing shorts!? We need a dress code!â No, you donât. You just need to tell John not to wear shorts again.
So donât scar on the first cut. Donât create a policy because one person did something wrong once. Policies are only meant for situations that come up over and over again.
đDans lâactu
đ±Monde des technologies
đTony Hsieh, le fondateur de Zappos, et un des pionniers sur les sujets de la culture dâentreprise est dĂ©cĂ©dĂ©, aprĂšs une lente chute aux enfers (Forbes)
đNetflix : Ted Sarandos parle de Streaming, de CompĂ©tition, et de ce qui pourrait venir aprĂšs (Aspen Institute)
Comment ils ont lancé leur premier show.
Recruter des stars et leur faire confiance.
Etre concentré sur un seul problÚme.
đSalesforce acquiert Slack pour plus de 27 Md$ (CNBC)
Cette acquisition intervient aprĂšs celles de Tableau (15,3 Md$, 2019) et MuleSoft (6,5 Md$, 2018).
Lâaccord crĂ©e aussi une nouvelle zone de compĂ©tition entre Salesforce et Microsoft, en plus de la vente de logiciels, de la visualisation de donnĂ©es et dâoutils de productivitĂ©.
đ„ SantĂ©
đGoodRx a levĂ© 1,1 Md$ lors de son entrĂ©e en bourse, Ă une valorisation de 12.,7 Md$ (Fierce)
That boosted the consumer healthcare technology firm's market cap to about $12.7 billion.
The startup helps consumers find deals on their prescription medications.
The past 12 months has been the year of the healthcare IPO with companies including Livongo, Phreesia, Health Catalyst, Change Healthcare, Progyny, One Medical, Accolade and GoHealth all testing the public market
Last year, GoodRx reported revenues of $388 million, up 55% from $250 million in 2018. The company pulled in $66 million in profits in 2019, up 50% from $43 million the previous year. Â
The majority of the company's revenue, 97%, comes from its prescription offering in which it collects fees from pharmacy benefit managers when consumers use a GoodRx code to fill a prescription.Â
The company started in 2011 with a price comparison tool for prescriptions, offering consumers free access to lower prices on their medication. With the acquisition of telemedicine company HeyDoctor in September 2019, GoodRx expanded its services to include virtual care.
The company's philanthropic arm, GoodRx Helps, helps provide medications to people across America who have nowhere else to turn.
đWalmart sâassocie Ă la startup Clover pour proposer des plans Medicare dans lâĂtat de GĂ©orgie (MedcityNews)
A new health insurance plan will include Walmartâs Health Centers as a feature. The retailer is teaming up with insurance startup Clover to offer Medicare Advantage plans across the state of Georgia.
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đAlan en Belgique (LN24) : jâĂ©tais hier sur la matinale des News 24, Ă Bruxelles, pour parler dâAlan et dâHealthy Business avec lâexcellente Catarina Letor !
đIT Link tĂ©moigne de son expĂ©rience chez Alan (alantĂ©moignages) : CĂ©cile Chopinet, RH chez IT Link, et Nora Marcon, Account Manager chez Alan, vous racontent comment parvenir Ă faire de la santĂ© un levier dâengagement et non une âsimpleâ obligation lĂ©gale.
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