Strengths and weaknesses (from my pov):

• Pierre

  • Strengths

    • Already saw a story once — no need to explain much, might find shortcuts for a few topics
    • Great sales person in meetings — In client meetings he demonstrated adaptation and leadership, in a few words he is able to build trust
    • Problem-solving / lean methodology — Most of the time he was able to identify a problem we wanted to solve, he is able to stick to a problem-solving methodology rather than jumping right to a solution.
    • Good at async and required by remote — Notes are greatly structured when it makes sense to be, has reflexes about async and remote.

  • Stuff I have doubts

    • Rely too much on ChatGPT, lack creativity — For a few things I feel Pierre is using ChatGPT too much, or actually should I say trusting ChatGPT outputs, or even others kind of outputs, like seeing a thing in a video or getting a feedback from someone and jumping right into it with less challenge. I don’t know if it’s his role, but sometimes I feel he lacks a bit of creativity.

    During meetings when brainstorming, copy/pasting stuff from ChatGPT into the working board was also sometimes a bit hard to follow, or with less collective intelligence as we did not see the inputs or what was asked to the LLM.

    • Data ecosystem knowledge — Is it required? Depending on the roles repartition might be not, in the end he will build it I guess.
    • Mildly interested in the product — Until the recorded demo I’m not sure he tried the product and did stuff inside.
    • A part of the Cubyn story — especially when he said that he moved from Head of Sales (?) to another role because it was not working anymore.
    • Being in Aix — Even if it’s the second place in France I could spend most of my time (because my family lives nearby), in the early days might be hard to build the necessary proximity between founders.

  • Should improve

    • Governance issues or mistrust about VCs — I think we need to raise to build what we have in mind. I don’t know when, the later the better still playing the VC game would be necessary I’m convinced about this.

    Regarding governance, I know it’s a problem of trust into others to be removed from something you care about, but still a partnership will always brings disagreements on the table and you will never have full governance.

    • Lacked assertiveness in the sales process — the consensual part and the diverge between Claire and Pierre might led to this in the end, but from someone who saw the story I feel you lacked assertiveness or creativity about a few things about sales (e.g. pricing, strategy)
    • Think less — We are the same when it comes to thinking in meeting, but outside of work you should find a way to disconnect and to get out of the spiral, might happen again in more stressful situation with bigger stake and might alter your thoughts process.

    This is highly personal. Having sleep issues because of work depicts something deep and even if the situation was complicated.

    • Straight emotions / quick jugement / little nuance — In a few meetings you had quick feedbacks or straight feelings and little nuance (e.g. with Claire Artsper, Jean, Aligneurs) and I’m not sure it was always the good read.