#29 Working with the Board - Matt Miller (Sequoia) | Builders' Studio: a Founder School by Slush

Every company has a board, yet it is not all that clear how to efficiently leverage one at different stages of a company’s lifecycle. An ideal board of a young startup may look very different from a well functioning board of a more mature company. Are there some key heuristics that founders should follow when setting up their board?Matt Miller, Partner at Sequoia, sits on the boards of multiple scaleups such as Graphcore and Tessian. In this talk, among other insights, he’ll share his take on the ideal size for a board, what happens in a board meeting and what should be the board’s main focus points throughout the way.

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