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What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth at andrewchen
How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others (50 slides) at andrewchen
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Takeaways:
- Sales becomes the second most common hire , after engineering.
- A quarter of companies hired a product manager at this point.
- Recruiters become a surprisingly common hire. I did not expect that. This is particularly true across some of the most unique startups, like Linear, Figma, Ramp, and Coda. Here’s Jori Lallo, co-founder of Linear,
Lenny Rachitsky • Hiring your early team
Building the initial team for seed stage startups at andrewchen
andrewchen.com
Product Mistakes that Apply to Careers: focusing on acquisition instead of retention (focusing on networking instead of relationships & reputation). Or working in a space that doesn’t get more valuable over time (e.g working in a dying industry), or building another “me-too” product without differentiation (not taking enough career risk). Choos... See more