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July 19, 2024 (Review of Week EOY-24)

Metrics

  • Unique Buildings: 5,210 ←- as of last run

  • Annual Run Rate: $1.3M ←- no change

  • Monthly net burn: $53k ←- as of June close

  • 2024 Transaction fees to date: $6,017.34

  • Outstanding invoices as of today: $100,565.01

Last Week’s Highlights

  • Congrats on Release 70! As far as I can gather by eyeballing the PRs included, it looks like the first batch of GP changes have been released behind a feature flag (someone who knows pls confirm/correct/expound upon, etc). This is great!

  • CEO 360: I appreciate the time from the folks who participated in my 360 this week! It’s super helpful to have the feedback on where we have agreement and where folks are seeing risks I have missed! I know we all know we’re equals in our human condition, but I still am so grateful and relieved that y’all trust me to hear what you actually think despite the structural power dynamics and the kindness with which y’all do it. I encourage folks who want to add their feedback to either the work plan or the survey to still do it, if they can. Here is the video and the summary.

  • Atlanta, here we come! An email was sent to the GGRF stakeholders list this week that let folks know that we are exploring Atlanta as our first expansion market! We’re now looking for technical folks to partner with there.

Did I miss any highlights? Pls share in comments below.

My Watchlist

  • Generic Project: Since we’ve got to the point of starting to put code into production, I ask what will it take to have user-testable modules. As far as I understand, we are not quite able to do that yet.

  • Tech Recruiting: Enjoyed brainstorming with you all at this month’s horizontal meeting. To reiterate, we’ll all need to pitch in as we head toward hiring. Slack channel is #ops_diverse-talent and here is the proposed handbook page.

  • Cash. Oops - didn’t work this week on the mid-year re-forecast of the budget. We need a comb-through of why we are spending more than budgeted on consultants!

  • Meeting CPC’s needs. We are nearly there at increasing our prices for CPC. All the more reason to start figuring out how to deliver regular user-visible wins for them!

  • Dev pipeline: Still so much to do after GP.

  • Partnerships: Many, many conversations: Accelerator, GGRF. . This week, started reaching out to people in Atlanta!

  • Onboarding: Incremental improvements to tooling and process. Will need more!

  • Metrics: Not actively working out new metrics, but something to keep on the board.

  • Don’t be a series of small businesses: ~Marc and I are shopping for some founder coaching to make sure we’re staying on a venture-scale path~. We put this on the back burner. We don’t have time to engage right now.

On Deck for This Week

And here’s what’s on my radar screen - what am I forgetting?

Please Leave Feedback

Big thanks to the folks who dropped a note last week! 🎉 🤝

Please note your reaction to this update below. It helps me to know what is resonating, what is unclear, etc. Thanks!

  • What are your highlights / lowlights?

  • Did I miss a highlight? Did I miss something that should be on my watchlist? Something else you want to react to?

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François “Bomee 360” → I mentioned it already in meetings, but it’s refreshing and empowering to have this open feedback process with everyone participating as colleagues. “user testable modules” → modules are room in the terminology of the team, and it’s the goal to both be able to demo room by room, then test internally, then from users.”looking for technical folks to partner with there.” → could you please give more information? Do you mean contractors, building scientists with knowledge of local code, something else? Thanks Bomee for keeping this going and helping everyone get more context!
Naina Very exciting RE Atlanta - this is a real push for going national and a good driver to keep things moving very quickly on this front.I also really appreciated the horizontal practices meet this week, lots to think about in terms of hiring diverse talent and I’m excited for this to progress.
Jason I really liked the 360 process, and the horizontal practices meeting on hiring (I was sad I I had to drop off early). I think both helped reinforce the foundation of our company culture!I never thought I’d be excited about Atlanta, but I appreciate that it gives us a concrete thing to work on and ship in a more digestible way than “going national,” which is a little more abstract.We have a plan to deliver a handful of small CPC user-facing updates over the 2-3 weeks.How concerning is the cash overruns on consultant spending?BJ: Medium concerning. We have a similar variance issue with the timing of grant revenue, which I have been ignorning.Also, you mean HOT-lanta!
Jeff Been wondering if outstanding invoices meant - invoices that our customers have not paid yet?This is exciting! - do we also have some sort of “Atlanta BKB” to get those building details through?