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#127 Michael Stocks: Sydney to New York, Harvard MBA, Early Linktree hire, Demystifying operations in a high growth startup!
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Michael Stocks is Head of Strategy & Operations at "FL0", previously he joined the global success story Linktree as one of their earliest hires, scaling the startup to a billion dollar business. He was born and lives in Sydney, Australia.
In this episode #127 w Michael Stocks, learn about:
Michael’s sunrise, a mix of the Blue Mountains in Sydney and Malaysia — his parents met bush walking (how good), and mum was a speech pathologist and dad in the navy followed by working in Oil & Gas.
We connect over our shared love for quality storytelling and advertising, especially in today’s closed loop world with Netflix and Spotify where ads aren’t like live TV.
We spend the majority of this episode on Michael’s career journey from starting in advertising to joining Google first in Sydney and then New York when they were slightly smaller than they are today, how this led to his MBA study at Harvard and then the big moment!
How did he join Linktree when they were a dozen people and had not raised much external funding. Today they’re valued at over a billion dollars — what exactly is operations in a startup and why the perceptions can be wrong, using the vision to values framework to set team and company vision, how to strategise pricing for a global product launch, sequencing ambition and impact in a fast growing company, world class investor relations and successful off boarding and on boarding.
And that’s not all — Michael has decided to go back to early stage company building, joining Flo (that’s Fl0) — the platform that empowers back end engineers to deploy code, and how he’s using his link tree experiences to see around corners, especially being the first non engineer hire.
It’s now time to explore your curiosity. Please enjoy!
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02:48 - Where were you born and live now?
03:20 - What was your first job and now?
05:04- High Flyer in Michael’s life
06:18 - Malaysia and the Blue Mountains
07:46 - Introverted and shy
09:02 - Advertising love from day dot
13:15 - Mad Men
15:02 - Young Wisdom
17:08 - Rationale to work at Google
19:30 - Corporate vs startups
22:39 - Google in America vs Australia
26:35 - Harvard MBA
28:30 - Joining Linktree (when it was < 20 employees)
34:10 - Setting up for success in early startup
38:06 - Unpacking what “operations” means in a startup
42:05 - The vision to values framework
44:32 - Setting pricing for a viral global company
46:57 - Executive Coach
49:33 - Sequencing ambition and impact
53:06 - World class investor relations
56:00 - How can investors be most helpful
58:10 - Team management being a sharp curve
59:33 - Joining the startup, FL0
01:00:31 - Successful off boarding and onboarding
01:02:25 - Most formative experience in his career
01:03:39 - Final sprint
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