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JUNE 28, 2018
Because Bird was first to market, extremely innovative, quick to hire talented leadership and an experienced founder it was able to raise $125 million in an extraordinarily short period of time. Local politicians wanting to see local job creation rather than jobs at tech firms all migrating to San Francisco should be heartened.
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OCTOBER 26, 2020
He said to me (only 9 years ago), “I hope you’re not just hiring her because she’s a woman.” (I So There You Have It We have an amazing team including our newest Partner, Aditi Maliwal, who runs our FinTech investment practice and is based in San Francisco. I remember years ago trying to recruit Kara.
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NOVEMBER 16, 2009
Ryan was the most talented technologist we had hired at BuildOnline. We hired Ryan at a really young age and without a tremendous amount of prior experience. We had a strategy of hiring people really young because we couldn’t afford to hire too many senior people. I knew that meant he wouldn’t come back.
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NOVEMBER 5, 2014
I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. We hired outside experts. Of course the naysayers are out again. I’d love even 0.5%
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JUNE 21, 2014
You hire people who look good on paper. So one of the surest signs you’ve hired a leader is the willingness of his or her former team to re-assemble. When you’re hiring most reference checkers focus on the person’s former bosses. Working hard together at a big company just isn’t the same. You REALLY know.
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FEBRUARY 7, 2013
Because I am true to the hiring practices I preach, I wanted a strong exec who would “ punch above their weightclass ” by taking a job they hadn’t yet done but would hugely aspire to and thus work harder to out perform. And we wanted a head of global marketing. As you know I believe in Lines, not Dots.
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APRIL 20, 2011
million and opened another office in San Francisco. Management should communicate how the board can help - strategy, markets, key hires, introductions. They decided to run the fund close to home in West Conshohocken, PA where they still have offices. During the first year of the fund they took forty-eight trips to California!
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