126. Fred Destin: How start-up boards create & destroy value (and whether we should be thinking about value at all)
Description
Fred Destin is founder of Stride VC and was lead investor at Cazoo, Deliveroo, Integral Ad Science and Zoopla. Tune in to hear his thoughts on: Where have you seen start-up board members add most value to their organisations? (1:39 ) How did the Zoopla board get comfortable with giving away 30% equity in one go? (6:16 ) How did you manage having customers on your board? (7:26 ) What KPIs should board members be looking at? (8:27 ) Have you spotted patterns across particularly valuable board members? (10:34 ) Why is it wrong to frame board-level discussions around value add? (19:10 ) You’ve said most boards destroy value - why is that? (34:47 ) Should board members be more like scientists and less like prosecutors and preachers? (39:48 ) ⚡The Lightning Round ⚡(44:20 )
Host: Oliver Cummings
Producer: Will Felton
Music: Kate Mac
Audio: Nick Kold
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