Description 

This week James butchers several quotes, Tyler plans a coup, Darin goes mobile, and Garret learns probability scales. All of that and the guys discuss current stalemates at the partnership level).

Show Notes 

00:00:00 - Pre Show

• Mystery food as described by James Maes

• 6G Wireless

00:02:00 - Show Start

00:02:20 - Follow-Ups 

• Question from Darin - Did we time travel, miss recording for a week….or is Tim CEO and the space time continuum has collapsed?

  • Really Garret slacked off and we missed a week

• Question from Listener Brandy - What’s the difference between Tier 1 and Tier 2 support roles?

• Garret gets the “ol’ Scotch Lung” (at 2 in the afternoon)

• Comment from Listener Brandy - I think Darin and Tyler are so cute together…

  • (nothing on Dim though)

00:07:21- The Headlines

• Darin

  • Took some time off

  • Topic 2(1) today has me a little fuzzy (no spoilers)

  • Strategic Team

    • Going to miss the current sprint

      • “Canary” deployment approach

        • A little more involved than anticipated

• Tyler

  • Product L10™ - Scored a 3.8 (broke the rules and shared it)

    • Getting the next email out around support migration to Hubspot

    • Trial run of VOTOR?

      • Simplifying the complex process of voting on issues

      • Complete and total success

  • Two rocks kicked off for the product team

  • First release coming (since we shut them down)

• Garret

  • LT L10™ - Scored a 4.0

    • Getting to new leads immediately (“on-call” sales schedule)

  • Retail Sales L10™ - Scored a 4.75 (highest score ever)

  • 3PL Sales L10™ - Scored a 4.2

    • How to get clients into the application outside of training

  • Launched Rock - Bring lead generation in-house

  • Personal Updates

    • Rough couple weeks 

      • Departures and Board stalemates

    • Officiated a wedding in northern California

• James (keeping the streak alive) - No Headlines

  • “I’m not the kinda guy that makes headlines”

00:20:06 - Topic 2 (1) - Ari part 4 - Partnership Challenges (James’ focus for the last 4 weeks)

• What is it James does at this company?

• Taking on growth funding

• At the point of term sheets

  • Now time to pay off some board level “debt”

  • MMLT and Partner Company hitting wall on the “hand shake” agreement in place

  • These details have to be fleshed out (some disagreement where the I’s get dotted and T’s get crossed)

• “Everyone remembers the deal in 2013 differently”

• “No you didn’t...yes I did...no you didn’t...yes I did”

• Until this issue is solved...we can keep the day to day growth running

• The back story: 3 weeks ago…

  • Serious disagreement

  • Setting first principles

  • The go to move

• So thankful for the 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

• James butchers a quote “very few times do you get the opportunity to be tested”

• Today’s call:

  • “Step back from the cliff”

  • No path forward on the main issue

  • Cleared the table for new dialogue

• We should really solve this before it becomes the “big problem”

  • No need to solve this now...head back in the sand

• What were the MMLT first principles

  • Equity

  • Control

  • Unity

• Tyler may use this “distraction” to attempt a coup

  • But he loves being part of the partnership

• Question: How prevalent do you believe “battles” like this are in the startup world?

  • Only 1/10th of 1 percent of companies make it to where we are in 5 years

• This whole thing is 15 Commitments in action

• “I’m as certain as I’ve ever been that the outcome will be what we always believed it to be...it’s still the win for all”

• Garret learns the difference between a probability scale of 1 to 7 and the only proper scale of 1 to 5

• What makes an entrepreneur…

• “You know what a great man is by himself...he’s a freaking weirdo on a walk”

Insert Lucy update (live from a walk with Darin)

• She’s still alive!

01:03:37- Questions and Long Answers 

• None this week since Garret did them in follow ups

01:03:37 - End of Show 

• James forgets the end of show spiel 

00:00:00 -  After Show - None this week

The Credits

• Hosts, Garret Richardson, Tyler Samples, Darin Kelkhoff, and James Maes

• Show Notes by Garret Richardson

• Proofing and Title by Darin Kelkhoff

• Editing, Mixing, and Mastering by Brenton Wainscott