Most Important Skills For A Principal At Meridiem Ventures
Bryan, a Principal at Meridiem Ventures, highlights the importance of "listening and understanding what others' goals are and what their objectives are", whether in deal-making or corporate strategy. Most recently, Bryan suggests that understanding how data drives business and its limitations, especially since working at Netflix, is essential for informed decision-making in the entertainment industry.
Active Listening, Understanding Objectives, Creative Problem-Solving, Data Analysis, Strategic Decision-Making
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Bryan Noon
Principal
Meridiem Ventures
UC Berkeley
UCLA Anderson - MBA
Economics, Political Science, American Studies
Arts, Entertainment & Media, Consulting & Related Professional Services
Consulting
Video Highlights
1. Listening and understanding others' goals and objectives is crucial, whether in deal-making or corporate strategy.
2. Digging deep to understand the needs of clients or the motivations of different groups within a company is essential for finding common ground and creative solutions.
3. Understanding how data drives business, especially in the entertainment industry, is increasingly important, but it's also vital to recognize its limitations and make decisions based on a balanced perspective.
Transcript
What skills are most important for a job like yours?
What has proven to be the most important over my entire career involves really just listening and understanding what others' goals and objectives are. This applies whether it's in the deal-making process, where you might be working with a lawyer representing a client. Instead of just going back and forth about the specifics of the deal, it's important to dig in and try to understand what their client wants and needs.
Or it could be on the corporate side, working across multiple divisions of a company. The goal is to get to the root of what is driving particular groups to make certain decisions. Then, try to find common ground and get creative. This is true whether it's in deal-making or coming up with a strategy within a corporate environment.
More recently, the most important skill is understanding how data drives business. This has really become apparent in the last 10 years, particularly in the entertainment industry. Working at Netflix, there was this perception that data drove every single decision.
However, what's important to understand about data is how it can guide decisions, but also its limitations. Then, make your decisions based on knowledge of both the positives and negatives of what the data is telling you.