As a founder I struggled with hiring my first employees, yet I knew it was gonna be very impactful on our success As an investor I keep helping founders with it, so I put all my advice into an essay "How to Become a Magnet for Talent and Assess... See more

Everything they teach at YC in one page: https://t.co/OtrHavtPWK

For anyone using the holidays to search for a new startup role: here is a ~2,000 word, ~5 min read on how I would approach it: There is a common failure mode in early startup careers: Step 1: Get your dream job. Doing product or growth or whatever it is that makes your heart flutter. Great... See more

It’s critical to start with the right set of early customers to kick off all the self-reinforcing growth cycles we’ve discussed above. You have to start by knowing who your best early customers will be — for productivity/collaboration companies that’s often knowledge workers on remote and distributed teams, and often engineers.

It’s trial and error or it’s working with people you already know and trust in a business context. Cliché as it sounds, you’re not going to find the right team, if you don’t know yourself – but that’s way too philosophical for this memo. Understand how you work and how you like people to perform under pressure. Set the culture of the business... See more