Hiring Advice

0/ The Chief of Staff role has reached a tipping point, from startups to trillion-dollar companies. I've talked to ~100 CEOs, from @NotionHQ, @Patreon, @blendlabsinc, @benchling and more, all asking same q: How should I hire a chief of staff? Here's what I tell them 🧵

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Kassen Qian

A Strategist’s Go-To-Market Strategy Guide — rational vc

Iman Olya rationalvc.com

Emilie Kormienko

Exec Development is a Different Game

Cedric Chin commoncog.com

Mo Shafieeha

How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others (50 slides) at andrewchen

andrewchen.com

Jordan Bester

Hazards of Hiring

Eric Sink ericsink.com

Johanna

A lot of very smart people work in strange ways / with a lot of quirks (e.g. contemplating for hours and appearing to do nothing, while then suddenly having 100x output burst). This usually makes them not a great fit for traditional corporate world, where you often have to fake…

Laura Wendel x.com

andrea

Theory for excellence. "Excellence" is a surprisingly generalizable skill. People who've been great at *anything* are more likely to have the drive and self-discipline to excel even at something unrelated. In 2015, we hired a number of ex-Juilliard musicians with no engineering experience with the assumption that “people who know how to be

Tara Seshan • How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People

Brandy Cerne

Using the collaborate before you commit approach empowers both the candidate and the person hiring, because they both have the agency to decide whether the situation feels right to them. Was there chemistry? Was there magic? Was it more awkward than you might have liked?

Yancey Strickler • Notes on hiring

sari

If you want to build a company, open this:

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Jordan Bester