Best of Career Twitter - October '21 Edition
The most dangerous risk of all is the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.
Solid take. If I were early in my career, I would hate remote work. So much of my career was defined by watching and interacting with exceptional operators and mentors, side by side. Nothing I’ve seen as a remote solution comes close to being there.
Sar Haribhakti @sarthakgh
McKinsey is therapy for companies
Mimi Rose @Mimi_Rose_01
There was a new dude at pick-up basketball this week, best player there. Several times, after he passed me the ball, he'd say "drain that ball, Chris." I had (for me, on a relative basis) an epic scoring night. It was such a refreshing change from my usual intense self-criticism.
Moses Kagan @moseskagan
it’s been about four months since we started our four-day workweek experiment and i can honestly say that the idea of a five-day workweek now seems insane looking back, both because three days are necessary for a proper weekend and no job truly needs all five days
Question 1: I’ve read your bio, but how about we start sharing each other's stories?
This sounds fluffy. It's not.
It’s crucial to learn who the candidate is.
The best teams are a combination of skills + incentives + personalities.
Most hiring stops at the skills part.
Question 4: What motivates you?
Double click on the “pride” point above.
It’s important to understand why someone does what they do.
If you feel like you’re getting a cookie cutter response - dig deeper.
Understand what motivates them on the deepest level.
Question 11: Will people follow you here?
To double down on recruiting…
The best people bring other amazing people when they join you.
It’s hard to predict this in advance, but I like asking this question directly to see what they say.
In 2021, the clear best job out of college is working at a fast-growing, series B+ startup. Not only is this the highest EV path from a wealth creation perspective, but also optimizes for learning, brand, & network.
There is not a single good reason to join big tech/banking.
Some of y’all really don’t understand how startups work.
Yes, you are underpaid on salary. Yes, you will still make 6 figures (as an eng/designer). Yes, your equity package could be life changing.
Most common trait of 10xers: they don’t understand what’s in their job description
10xers think they should do way more than they are “supposed” to do
@danielgross and I explore how to identify great employees on World of DaaS podcast.
B) Do the grunt work.
I spent 10-12 hours on Linkedin every Saturday & Sunday for months. I couldn't afford to hire a full-time recruiter, so I had to do the work myself.
Recruiting is hard work, but as a CEO, it's the highest leverage activity you can do. Just do it.
2. SOURCE CANDIDATES
As a startup, few people know about you. The best candidates aren't combing through Crunchbase and applying to companies they've never heard of.
You need to go to them.
@Altimor Not joining Coinbase as the first PM in 2014 because I had just joined Twitter & didn't think I could leave 2 months after starting.
Learned:
It's sometimes OK to leave like that without burning too many bridges, just don't be the person who does this more than once or twice.
@Altimor Also, telling FB in 2008 that I didn't want to entertain their question to me about potentially joining as an engineer because I wanted to continue the PM path.
Learned:
If offered a seat on rocket ship...
Didn't realize I could've just changed to PM some months after joining.
