What Do Top 1% Startup Employees Want?

Every Monday morning at Nest, that’s how my management meetings started: Who are the great people we want to hire? Are we making our hiring goals or retention metrics? If not, what’s the problem? What are the roadblocks? And how is the team doing? What issues do people have? How are performance reviews going? Who needs a bonus? How are we going to

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But here’s the magic few people ever talk about …We’ve created more than $1.5 billion in value to Upfront from just 6 deals that WERE NOT immediately up and to the right.The beauty of these businesses that weren’t immediate momentum is that they didn’t raise as much capital (so neither we nor the founders had to take the extra dilution), they took ... See more

Early in your career, you choose 1 of 3: the company, the role OR the salary.The hard part is to be honest about what you want. Do you want to learn and invest in your future? Do you want to make the highest income you possibly can? Or do you want to do work you find super interesting?Only a tiny fraction of people get to have all three, and they'r... See more

私が初めての転職の時にたどり着いた法則で「仕事はやりがいと金と人間関係、このうち1つが欠けても生きていけるけど2つ欠けると死ぬ」というのがありまして。スタートアップは金が最初から欠けてる場合が多いから、マネージャーはあとの2つを必死に守るしかないんですよ。