Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 31st/01st September 2024
A critical task VCs most by Pat Kinsel
“There is nothing more detrimental to a growing company’s progress than hiring the wrong executives just as the business is starting to scale - exactly when the CEO and Founders are letting others own key areas, teams are hired, people are trained, and culture is set. The wrong executives blow resources, repel critical talent, and in many cases kill companies.….”
It takes a year to find great executives so you must always look down the field.” Proof’s Pat Kinsel on why he believes a VCs most critical task is to make sure the WRONG person doesn’t get hired into a startup. by hunter walk
“This is why VC intros to executive hires can be so so dangerous. Many VCs know people in big companies who manage something important and try to pull these people out when they might be the dead wrong candidate. The risk aversion that kept them in the big company might get broken when the big fancy VC recruits them, but it returns the instant they’re in your company.…”
Two Thoughts 14 - 20 January by Jim O'Shaughnessy
Two thoughts from Omar Khayyam
“To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.
Shall I still sigh for what I have not got,
Or try with cheerfulness to bear my lot?
Fill up my cup! I know not if the breath
I now am drawing is my last, or not”