Aaref Hilaly's guest appearances

Aaref Hilaly

The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors

Zero To Exit

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Keith Rabois

Mike McDerment

Laura Roeder

Ashley Smith

Matt Murphy

Garry Tan

Todd Olson

Ben Uretsky

Brad Feld

Kleiner Perkins

John Doerr

Jack Altman

Mathilde Collin

Jon Stein

OwlTail

Aaref Hilaly is a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures and a proven technology veteran with over 20 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor. Prior to joining BCV, he co-founded two companies and spent seven years as a partner at Sequoia. If you want to know how to instantly get VC's attention, you don't want to miss this episode.

Aaref Hilaly is a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures and a proven technology veteran with over 20 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor. Prior to joining BCV, he co-founded two companies and spent seven years as a partner at Sequoia. If you want to know how to instantly get VC's attention, you don't want to miss this episode.

Lessons from an Entrepreneur turned VC - Aaref Hilaly (Partner, Bain Capital Ventures)

Aaref Hilaly is a Partner @ Sequoia Capital, one of the world’s most successful VC funds with investments in the likes of Apple, Google, Paypal, Whatsapp and LinkedIn just to name a few. As for Aaref he came to the valley with 2 suitcases and the ambition to start a company. That he did and had 2 companies that were Sequoia backed, first CenterRun and then ClearWell Systems where Aaref was instrumental in the company’s growth from 0 to a $100m revenue run rate in just 4 years, prior to their $410m acquisition by Symantec. Today Aaref draws on this incredible operational success to illustrate how to manage up and have a very happy board. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn:  Why does Aaref advocate for founders not to manage the board but to engage them? How can this be done effectively? What does Aaref state are the dangers of focussing on metrics with your board? Why should you focus on product instead? How does this shift change the dialogue with the board? When things do go wrong and the company misses a quarter, how should the founder react? Why does Aaref suggest that founders need to own the miss? How should they structure these conversations? What should they not do when they miss a quarter? How can founders most effectively put their board to work? How should this be communicated and then followed up on by the founder? Where has Aaref found the board can provide the most value?  If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr Aaref Hilaly

<a href="https://twitter.com/aaref" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Aaref Hilaly</a> is a Partner @ <a href="https://www.sequoiacap.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sequoia Capital</a>, one of the world’s most successful VC funds with investments in the likes of Apple, Google, Paypal, Whatsapp and LinkedIn just to name a few. As for Aaref he came to the valley with 2 suitcases and the ambition to start a company. That he did and had 2 companies that were Sequoia backed, first CenterRun and then ClearWell Systems where Aaref was instrumental in the company’s growth from 0 to a $100m revenue run rate in just 4 years, prior to their $410m acquisition by Symantec. Today Aaref draws on this incredible operational success to illustrate how to manage up and have a very happy board. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: <ul> <li>Why does Aaref advocate for founders not to manage the board but to engage them? How can this be done effectively?</li> <li>What does Aaref state are the dangers of focussing on metrics with your board? Why should you focus on product instead? How does this shift change the dialogue with the board?</li> <li>When things do go wrong and the company misses a quarter, how should the founder react? Why does Aaref suggest that founders need to own the miss? How should they structure these conversations? What should they not do when they miss a quarter?</li> <li>How can founders most effectively put their board to work? How should this be communicated and then followed up on by the founder? Where has Aaref found the board can provide the most value?</li> </ul> If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonlk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jason Lemkin</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/HarryStebbings" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Harry Stebbings</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/saastr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SaaStr</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/aaref" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Aaref Hilaly</a>

SaaStr 120: Sequoia Partner, Aaref Hilaly on How To Manage Up Your Board & Keep The Happy Even In Hard Times