Most CEOs are CEOs because they started the businesses they run - not because they are abnormally smart or qualified.
Often they’re the least qualified people in the company, since they’re the only ones who didn’t go through an interview process.
Sahil Lavingiatwitter.comMost CEOs are CEOs because they started the businesses they run - not because they are abnormally smart or qualified. Often they’re the least qualified people in the company, since they’re the only ones who didn’t go through an interview process.
Talked to several early stage (Pre-Seed to Seed) Founders the past couple weeks that either by their words or actions haven't the faintest idea of what it takes to build and hire great engineers. Let alone at scale.
Digging into AI on the recruiting landscape and I'm even more bullish on good recruiters outperforming. _... See more
Michael Mathewsx.comMy dataset showed that the founders of billion-dollar companies were more likely to have PhDs than be dropouts, many of them had entirely non-technical co-founders, fewer than 15 percent went through any accelerator program, many weren’t solving a personal problem, and very few were first to market.
Ali Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
It’s beyond backwards that most advice about how to build startups is published by venture capitalists, not by founders
Founders are too busy inventing the future to bother being “thought leaders” about it
Bobby Goodlattex.com