Board meetings are like a box of chocolates

Board Meetings are all interesting, specially if they are your own, but you’re never exactly sure what you are going to get.

Yesterday we had our second Lijit board meeting. In a way kind of our first because the first Board Meeting had a lot of “we bought desks” on the agenda. Our current Board of Directors includes myself and Stan, Brad Feld, and Seth Goldstein.

Boards are interesting when you first get everyone together. Everyone is generally very intelligent and has good things to offer, but much like Panda Mating, you’re never quite sure you’re going to get a Panda.

All the planets lined up yesterday and I have to say I personally had the best board meeting I have had in 8 years of going to board meetings. Everyone was engaged and had extremely valuable input. The output was many times the sum of the parts, and it didn’t end in what I was used to from Raindance, a Sales VP getting whacked.

I left the day thinking to myself, “Wow, this company can be huge”.  These are enormous ideas we are talking about, the kind of ideas that can change the world.

That’s a great way to end the week. I’m taking the team out for a beer.