Startup Advice
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Startup Advice
"This is worth repeating over and over again: your product is all there is. For the insiders in the know it is so easy to project the vision onto the product and they will always see it. But that is not how everyone else experiences it. Always keep this in mind."
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 🧵
nametwitter.com
Job descriptions are never exhaustive, even from the beginning. They represent a set of needs for a specific context and time, which after a few months no longer reflects reality. Yet companies hire people based on their ability to match that fixed job description. They hire for the short-term.
Why start from something so specific? Instead, find... See more
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Sharan Bal • Hiring Humans, Not Resources
“Hire for soul, not role”
Projects rarely unfold in a linear fashion; they require frequent course correction. Most trainees should spend more time on a project’s decision tree than they currently do. Once you get into a project, you will have learned from your initial experiments, new papers will have been published, and technology will have advanced. As a result, at any... See more