The best way to get a powerful person’s attention: offer to help them.
As chief of staff, I reviewed thousands of requests for Reid’s time/attention/money. It was stunning how few requesters actually offered to help him on something. Amusingly, many requests were framed as if the asking party were doing Reid a favor by giving him the opportunity to... See more
Here's another cold email from a stranger -> job at @stripe. 📧🌟
This one is extra special because it has the twist that we *created a new role* for this great person and they took @faderp's Applied probability models in marketing course. These facts are highly correlated!