Key Takeaways
- Every meeting costs the time of every person in it, multiplied.
- A 30-minute meeting with six people costs three hours of organizational capacity.
- The meeting that could have been an email should have been an email.
Saim Abbasi approaches the hidden cost of meetings from the perspective of an operator who has built and sold companies, run a media brand, and invested across multiple sectors through Iron Key Capital. The insight shared here comes from direct experience rather than academic study.
The Core Idea
Why meetings are the most expensive and most undervalued cost in any growing company. This comes up frequently in the work Saim does with founders at every stage from pre-seed through Series A. The framework is consistent even when the application varies by company and context.
What to Do With This
Entrepreneurs and global businessmen who have navigated this successfully tend to share specific habits of mind described in the key takeaways. Saim Abbasi's track record across SA Capital, OptionsSwing, Asset Entities, SA Media, and Iron Key Capital provides a practical lens on what works.
"You are not in too many meetings because you are important. You are in too many because better processes have not been built."