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Business Insider
13 hours ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Rubrik's CEO let 800 employees sit in on board meetings — and he says it supercharged the company
For the first seven to eight years of building the company, Rubrik's CEO opened board meetings to all staff. Bipul Sinha said as many as 800 staff members tuned in to these meetings. The data management firm went public in April 2024 and is worth $19 billion. But for the first seven to eight years of building the data management firm Rubrik, Bipul Sinha let every employee in. "We put the board meeting in a large conference room," the CEO and cofounder said on an episode of "The Logan Bartlett Show" published Friday. "We let people sit on the ground if needed." "People could ask questions, so it was not a webinar style," Sinha said. "We've had situations where people actually asked hard questions in the middle of the board meeting." As many as 800 staff members tuned in to some ofthese sessions, Sinha said. "It is a direct result of this idea of transparency that really created alignment and velocity," the former venture partner at Lightspeed said. "Everybody knew where we are going and what needed to be done," he added. Sinha cofounded Rubrik in 2014. The company went public in April last year and is worth $19 billion. The meetings, Sinha said, were his way of showing there were "no sacred cows" and "no information control." "Everybody can demand answers, and when people demand answers, then people also become very responsible, they take it very personally," he said. The format wasn't without friction. Some VCs and executives were initially skeptical, Sinha said. "It was a little non-intuitive for them initially," Sinha said. "Sometimes you don't realize how many people are on the call, and we would have discussions about an individual," he added. Eventually, Rubrik had to close the meetings to employees "because of the IPO and other activity," Sinha said. Sinha did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. Rubrik isn't the only company that has pushed for more transparency in high-stakes meetings. At Blackstone, senior leaders make it a point to involve junior staff during the private equity firm's deal meetings. "We'll go around in many of these committees and ask the most junior people in the room, 'hey, what do you think?'" Blackstone President Jon Gray said earlier this year. "We want them to articulate why they have conviction."
Business Insider
13 hours ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Rubrik's CEO let 800 employees sit in on board meetings — and he says it supercharged the company
Most CEOs keep board meetings private. But for the first seven to eight years of building the data management firm Rubrik, Bipul Sinha let every employee in. "We put the board meeting in a large conference room," the CEO and cofounder said on an episode of "The Logan Bartlett Show" published Friday. "We let people sit on the ground if needed." "People could ask questions, so it was not a webinar style," Sinha said. "We've had situations where people actually asked hard questions in the middle of the board meeting." As many as 800 staff members tuned in to some of these sessions, Sinha said. "It is a direct result of this idea of transparency that really created alignment and velocity," the former venture partner at Lightspeed said. "Everybody knew where we are going and what needed to be done," he added. Sinha cofounded Rubrik in 2014. The company went public in April last year and is worth $19 billion. The meetings, Sinha said, were his way of showing there were "no sacred cows" and "no information control." "Everybody can demand answers, and when people demand answers, then people also become very responsible, they take it very personally," he said. The format wasn't without friction. Some VCs and executives were initially skeptical, Sinha said. "It was a little non-intuitive for them initially," Sinha said. "Sometimes you don't realize how many people are on the call, and we would have discussions about an individual," he added. Eventually, Rubrik had to close the meetings to employees "because of the IPO and other activity," Sinha said. Sinha did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. Rubrik isn't the only company that has pushed for more transparency in high-stakes meetings. At Blackstone, senior leaders make it a point to involve junior staff during the private equity firm's deal meetings. "We'll go around in many of these committees and ask the most junior people in the room, 'hey, what do you think?'" Blackstone President Jon Gray said earlier this year. "We want them to articulate why they have conviction." An associate who interned twice at Blackstone told Business Insider that juniors were encouraged to make their presence known. A senior leader said to him that "rank doesn't matter here."
Axios
17-04-2025
- Business
- Axios
Communicator spotlight: Josh Machiz, partner at Redpoint Ventures
Josh Machiz leads the founder experience team at Redpoint Ventures, tasked with identifying marketing, content and storytelling opportunities for the firm and its portfolio companies. Why it matters: Redpoint — which has backed companies like Snowflake, Twilio, Stripe and Ramp — has embraced a content-first marketing strategy, with roughly 70,000 followers on Instagram and more than 40,000 on TikTok. Catchup quick: Machiz joined Redpoint from Nasdaq, where he helped develop the exchange's digital marketing strategy, most recently serving as chief digital officer. "I grew Nasdaq's social channels from literally zero to 3.5 billion followers and then continued to ride every social media wave," he said. "I think that the exchanges hadn't really thought of marketing as an enablement for sales to win deals." Part of the sales pitch was the opportunity for social marketing moments during the bell ceremony and appearances on long-form video series that were created and promoted by his team. Zoom in: Machiz says he learned a lot while working with the Duolingo team on its IPO. "I learned how to think about your brand as an influencer and how important it is to create a face for your brand," he said. Now, Machiz touts Redpoint's social media following and engaged audiences across audio and video platforms. "'The Logan Bartlett Show' is going to hit 50,000 YouTube subscribers and has featured [interviews] with every luminary you can you can think of, from Sam Altman to Marc Benioff, and our AI podcast, 'Unsupervised Learning' just reached 10,000 subscribers. We're really hitting our stride on the content front," he said. What to watch: Machiz thinks YouTube is the most interesting social channel right now. "TikTok kind of killed the age of the follow, because you don't need to follow people to see the best stuff anymore," he said. "And so it's very interesting to me when a platform as old as YouTube that, because it's just been about subscription and discovery, has stayed." The intrigue: He recently binged the latest season of "Traitors" and threw a Traitors' themed birthday party last year, with the help of AI. Best career advice: Go in with an entrepreneurial lens.
