Arash Ferdowsi
3 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 22, 2022 by Zhenya Loginov · said 28 times in 8 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 24 mentions in 5 episodes 5 per episode
- Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
- Mire CRO Zhenya Loginov: Hiring Tips for Sales; Why Dropbox Lost Enterprise | 20VC #900 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2020 2 mentions in 1 episode
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Jun 22, 2022
Dropbox analyzed its entire interview database to identify top hiring bar keepers
“The way that we wanted to find people who could potentially replace Arash, we analyzed who said no more often and who was right in the hiring decisions more often. Like we took the entire database of our interviews for the company, and then we found those two …”
Jun 22, 2022
Dropbox co-founder Arash Ferdowsi interviewed every employee until 500+ headcount
“At Dropbox, we had this initiative to try to replace our final interviewer for a very long time has been the co-founder. Arash has been the co-founder. He interviewed every single person of the company until we were like 500 plus people.”
Nov 26, 2022 positive
Jaswa: Dropbox's talent bar would have collapsed without co-founder Arash Ferdowsi
“He was actually the person who kept the talent bar at Dropbox as high as he did. Like Dropbox has that well-earned reputation for being a place where lots of talented people worked, and it would have, the bar would have easily come down if it wasn't for him.”