Mike KoenigsAi Accelerator and Superpower Accelerator

From Crisis to Opportunity #podcast

Name: From Crisis to Opportunity #podcast
Uploaded: 2025-01-16T21:15:00+00:00
Duration: 54 s
Channel: Mike Koenigs
Description: A brief podcast excerpt in which Mike Koenigs describes how his team stabilized the company during a severe crisis by making deep cuts guided by an…

16 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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A brief podcast excerpt in which Mike Koenigs describes how his team stabilized the company during a severe crisis by making deep cuts guided by an advisory board, using slowed production to implement foundational changes, doing internal work to clarify vision, and ultimately enabling an exit. He links this recovery period to the origin of 'shift intelligence.'

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Talk about the moment when you first had hope and when you started figuring out your toolkit and where shift intelligence was born.
Well, that's a handful. It's, you know, first we had to find, just to stop the bleeding, because it was. It was really rough. So we had to make really, really deep cuts. Our advisory board was instrumental in that, helping us make the appropriate cuts, be able to get enough traction to, you know, keep the lights on, and then slowly rebuild from there. We use the crisis, actually, when the production slow down, to put some of those things in place. Then along the way, we had to do a bunch of our inner work in order to be able to see a bigger picture, see the bigger vision. We used it as a foundational moment to take things to the. To the right place and enable, eventually enable our exit.