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Daniel Lereya

Chief Product & Technology Officer @ monday.com

CPTO at monday.com, driving product strategy and R&D. Led the company past $1B ARR.

“Radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR, covering team leadership, product design, and engineering tradeoffs.”

Career History

CompanyRoleYears
monday.comChief Product & Technology Officer2016-present
IBM (XIV)Software Team Leader (prev. Software Engineer)2012-2016
SAPSoftware Engineer2011-2012

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“It's a good question. If I'm not mistaken, it was around 2018 back then, it's safe to assume 150, 200 people in the company. But, we were relatively small.”
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Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)

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“Yeah. So we want to give people a choice. But usually, we really feel that, in most cases, you really need to know this information in order to do your work.”
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Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)

38:51
“They didn't hear about it as well, apparently. And yeah, it took time to get to these solutions.”
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Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)

40:57
“And I think that, in that sense, fast-forward to this day, part of these products were really successful. For instance, Monday sale CRM is going faster than Monday back in the days, when it's amazing ...”
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Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)

47:46
“This move changed dramatically the competitive landscape that we live in. And, I think there was a lot of friction. Many people at the company were having a lot of friction with it. It was really, rea...”
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Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)

48:21
“But looking back it's such, I'm so happy with this move and the fact that we did it like that because just imagine what would happen if we would choose one of them and it wasn't the successful product...”
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Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)

48:35
“And many times people want the inertia, people want just the incremental value. But if you want to do leaps many times you need to let go of things that were successful for you in the past. And this i...”
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Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)

49:21
“So I remember that when we were small and we had for instance 20,000 paying customers, so we said, "Listen, but most of Monday's customers are not customers of Monday, yet. So we need to think about t...”
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Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)

49:38
“And this is something that really helps you because many times you need to do things that affect the current success that you have. But I think this is another very, very important thing that I am con...”
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Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)

49:51
“And, many times I saw that more time creates more questions. It creates more complications. It creates more assumptions that we put for ourselves in thinking what our users need. And we invent things.”
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Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)

52:12
“And we do it all from good reasons. We want people to like what we build, we want them to get value. But, for me, this is a very important point that many times using, like the setting traps mechanism...”
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Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)

52:29
“And [inaudible 00:52:51] by time, it makes you extremely focused. And this is very important because we really want to get feedback from customers that say, "Yeah, listen, this is on the direction. I'...”
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Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)

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