1/6 As part of @_surgeahead, I recently ran a workshop for 40 #founders about metrics . Numbers. It was 16 years ago when I learned about the importance of numbers from Napoleon.

2/6 Or, really, from a Dutch guy who reminded me of Napoleon. Small guy. Man of few words. But he owned the room. Oh, and he was CEO of a company with billions in revenue and over 100,000 employees across the world.
3/6 A colleague was presenting to a group of 5 that included me and that CEO. The presentation sounded like this:

- “Things are going well.”
- “We’re really proud of our team. They’re very passionate.”
- “Performance is incredibly strong this year.”
4/6 Napoleon was silent. Said nothing throughout. But in the end, he stood up and said:

“The language of business is numbers. The language of business is finance. If you don’t give me ONE number out of every TEN words, you are not talking business.”

Then he left.
5/6 I never forgot that. I realised I spoke 6 languages but didn’t speak numbers. Couldn’t speak finance. And business is all about numbers. ONE out of every TEN.
6/6 As a founder, you need to speak that language too. Become fluent in it. Use the formula:

Give ONE number out of every TEN words

#metrics #KPI #datastorytelling #ONEinTEN

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Unfortunately the "This work includes the identification of viral sequences in bat samples, and has resulted in the isolation of three bat SARS-related coronaviruses that are now used as reagents to test therapeutics and vaccines." were BEFORE the


chimeric infectious clone grants were there.https://t.co/DAArwFkz6v is in 2017, Rs4231.
https://t.co/UgXygDjYbW is in 2016, RsSHC014 and RsWIV16.
https://t.co/krO69CsJ94 is in 2013, RsWIV1. notice that this is before the beginning of the project

starting in 2016. Also remember that they told about only 3 isolates/live viruses. RsSHC014 is a live infectious clone that is just as alive as those other "Isolates".

P.D. somehow is able to use funds that he have yet recieved yet, and send results and sequences from late 2019 back in time into 2015,2013 and 2016!

https://t.co/4wC7k1Lh54 Ref 3: Why ALL your pangolin samples were PCR negative? to avoid deep sequencing and accidentally reveal Paguma Larvata and Oryctolagus Cuniculus?