Ben Perreau @perreau

Building Leadership Intelligence @parafoilco | Before: Working with Fortune 100 CxOs on Leadership, Strategy & Culture | Former PM & Journalist | LA via LDN. parafoil.co on the pale blue dot Joined September 2007

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Ben Perreau @perreau

2 weeks ago

@briannekimmel Que c'est beau!

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Ben Perreau @perreau

3 weeks ago

My take: this is wonderful for software development, aaaand software engineering was always HCI. If you’re thinking this is just more software eats the world? Only kinda, just like that, other verticals are harder.

Aaron Erickson @AaronErickson

3 weeks ago

Over half of my team are people who've led significant orgs and are now ICs. I had been a startup CEO, VPE at New Relic, Product Sr Director at Salesforce, and regional GM for ThoughtWorks before I joined @nvidia as a Senior Engineer 3 years ago. AI gives leaders who kept

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Ben Perreau @perreau

3 weeks ago

@GergelyOrosz As we saw in the Ballmer years as MSFT, revenue is a trailing indicator of strategy (and strategy often a trailing indicator of culture, but that’s a whole can of worms).

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Ben Perreau @perreau

3 weeks ago

A lot is asked of managers. Sometimes they have to absorb, translate, siphon, redirect. But sometimes they also have to lead—inspire the team to get the right work done by channeling the goals of the business and ensure the work is well orchestrated. Definitely an underrated role when done well.

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Ben Perreau @perreau

3 weeks ago

@Graciel_GG Yes. I love it. I loved last nights game. The World Cup is just so joyful to watch and it only gets better from here.

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3 weeks ago

Other sports are cool and everything but football / soccer is called the beautiful game for a reason. It’s just great.

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3 weeks ago

@keithbrisson @blader Agree. We fixed that.

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Ben Perreau @perreau

3 weeks ago

@blader Imagine what a whole product which has been fine tuned with the best behavioral science, decades of leadership theory, ontologies and frameworks and the context of your work and relationships is like. Imagine if it was embedded in your workflow. We built that.

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Ben Perreau @perreau

3 weeks ago

I only spoke to Om a handful of times but of course I was impressed by both his immense impact in tech, and his kindness and latitude to think originally about what was going on in the world. In a world where care is at a premium and craft is ever more precious, he will be deeply missed. Rest in peace, Om.

True Ventures @trueventures

3 weeks ago

It is with profound sadness that we share the news of Om Malik’s passing. It’s difficult to state the impact that @om had on all of our lives at True. Om was the first Founder we funded when we started True. In our Presidio office, Om discussed his idea for a new type of

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Ben Perreau @perreau

3 weeks ago

We’re about to see an explosion in the need for great leadership skills. But learning to lead is hard.

Shreyas Doshi @shreyas

3 weeks ago

As smaller teams start doing much more with AI, most management skills become way less important but leadership skills will become way more important.

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Ben Perreau @perreau

3 weeks ago

@shreyas This is one of the most crucial observations of the new era. But few people know what great leadership looks like, or learn to lead. @parafoilco is a science-backed way to rapidly improve through praxis.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick

3 weeks ago

A fundamental problem with extending Codex/Cowork/Code to all knowledge work is that they remain very "software-brained" where the end result (the software) is what is important & that code serves as a source of truth. For a lot of other knowledge work, the process is at least as important as the outcome. This includes researching what is known, an exploration of alternatives, failed efforts, prototype branches, experiments, etc. All of those things are valuable, so you cannot use the PowerPoint at the end the way you can use a codebase, nor is progress on a to-do list sufficient context post compaction. You work in learning loops, refining your perspectives as you go. In some ways, this makes long-running models like Fable hard to use for deep knowledge work, since they are designed to deliver product to you in the end. You can prompt your way around this problem, but everything about the Codex and Code harnesses want you to be a software developer and you have to fight them. There is a real disconnect between how a manager or analyst thinks about problems and how the agentic software tools approach solving them. Addressing this is critical to breaking out of the coding niche for these tools.

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Ben Perreau @perreau

4 weeks ago

@vixsheikh @SoniaBaschez @lennysan @parafoilco Yes, and I believe that once we drive untold productivity efficiencies from flatter orgs and agents we’re all going to realize that the humans that are in our org are the differentiators in terms of company performance.

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Ben Perreau @perreau

4 weeks ago

@vixsheikh @SoniaBaschez @lennysan @parafoilco Thanks @vixsheikh — it works, in our most recent pilot, 70% of users said they had found the feedback useful and changed their behavior as a result of using @parafoilco, needless to say that company has asked us to roll out to their entire population.

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Ben Perreau @perreau

4 weeks ago

@JustJake All the hard original problems are people problems. Agreed. If you just focus on logical problems using logical mechanisms you are basically just playing with LEGO.

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Ben Perreau @perreau

4 weeks ago

There’s a place for coaches, especially once you get more senior and the problems become more bespoke. But coaching is a method. There are other methods to becoming a high performing leader. I’m biased but I think @parafoilco is the fastest, easiest and lowest cost, and a growing number of leaders agree.

Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan

4 weeks ago

Heard from an executive coach that her business is way down due to AI.

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Ben Perreau @perreau

4 weeks ago

@shreyas @lennysan @parafoilco Plus, we’re turning all the knowledge gathered across the enterprise into a leadership corpus: How does this org work? What’s our org culture? How do decisions get made? Which teams need extra support? —All while maintaining individual privacy.

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Ben Perreau @perreau

4 weeks ago

No need to paste, @parafoilco captures, use cognitive science and leadership frameworks refined on decades of experience and pro-actively share insights with you. It’s fine tuned for leadership, and knowledge compounds over time. Being used by a bunch of leaders across Fortune 100 now. Would love to show you.

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Ben Perreau @perreau

4 weeks ago

@HodaMehr @lennysan We defined it, and baked in decades of cognitive science and leadership knowledge, plus we automated to capture so that “just works”. Wanna get better after every meeting? @parafoilco has got you.