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Friend asked for advice on hiring his first employees. I set a 60 min timer and ✍️ https://t.co/m6VQQgcfmU

based advice!

Career advice: • Bias for action • Talk to the room you're in: kick acronyms and buzzwords to the kerb • Over-communicate project status • Bullets, not paragraphs • Talk slower • Share everything you know • Build a consistency... See more

This is genuinely great advice

random things i've learned about m&a: ​ - corp dev is 80% intelligence gathering and 20% being interested in doing a deal: you can't easily tell which one you are dealing with - ask them to hop on a plane and meet; that's how you know they are serious - if you don't get to speak to the... See more

Got lunch w a new hire today cuz a mutual asked me to take care of them The best piece of advice I could give is actually 2 things: 1. Do deep work, ur coworkers r prob shallow work addicts - 4 hours of deep work is probably equivalent to 16 hours of shallow... See more

advice i would give my family on venturing into poasting (a draft):

A founder just told me I SHOULD have advisors with equity who did NOT put $$$ in so that when the company eventually exits, there is someone who is thinking of the founder's best interest.... I told him I have informal advisors/close successful founders I call on. Thoughts?