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Daniel Kan

7 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 16, 2019 by Daniel Kan · said 7 times in 4 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Aug 16, 2019 negative
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Kan: Hiring executives who have already done the job limits their growth
“If you hire someone who's already done the job, then they're not necessarily growing in the role. You're not fulfilling their personal goals of like learning or, you know, becoming a better manager or otherwise.”
Daniel Kan Aug 16, 2019 ▶ 10:48 20VC: Cruise's Daniel Kan on Lessons From Scaling The Team From 40 To 1,500 People, How Daniel Thinks About Continuous Learning & Self-Development and Why CEOs Hiring Themselves Out Of Roles Is Wrong
Aug 16, 2019 neutral
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Kan: The initial idea for Cruise came entirely from co-founder Kyle Vogt
“When it comes to Cruise, this was all my co-founder Kyle's idea. He's a CTO now, and I was wrapping up my last startup, and it seemed like a great idea, or at the very least, a really interesting story, and it turns out it was.”
Daniel Kan Aug 16, 2019 ▶ 4:50 20VC: Cruise's Daniel Kan on Lessons From Scaling The Team From 40 To 1,500 People, How Daniel Thinks About Continuous Learning & Self-Development and Why CEOs Hiring Themselves Out Of Roles Is Wrong
Aug 16, 2019
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Kan: Exec prematurely hired growth leaders before understanding its own strategy
“So we did this a lot early at exec. We tried to hire someone who knew more about growth and customer acquisition, which ultimately we needed, but we should have spent more time, in my opinion, learning what we needed, figuring out how to make it work, then fin…”
Daniel Kan Aug 16, 2019 ▶ 18:54 20VC: Cruise's Daniel Kan on Lessons From Scaling The Team From 40 To 1,500 People, How Daniel Thinks About Continuous Learning & Self-Development and Why CEOs Hiring Themselves Out Of Roles Is Wrong
Aug 16, 2019
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Kan: Hiring someone to solve unknown problems is wishful thinking
“Hiring people to solve a problem that you don't know how to solve yourself is a little bit of a red herring. I think it is wishful thinking that you will be able to find the right person if you don't know what you're looking for.”
Daniel Kan Aug 16, 2019 ▶ 18:23 20VC: Cruise's Daniel Kan on Lessons From Scaling The Team From 40 To 1,500 People, How Daniel Thinks About Continuous Learning & Self-Development and Why CEOs Hiring Themselves Out Of Roles Is Wrong
Aug 16, 2019 negative
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Kan: Micromanagement stems from leadership failing to set clear expectations
“Micromanagement is really a sign that you have not necessarily set clear expectations, or potentially that they don't necessarily know how to do the work, but you can offer guidance, but if you tell them exactly what to do, in a lot of cases, they'll just be p…”
Daniel Kan Aug 16, 2019 ▶ 10:04 20VC: Cruise's Daniel Kan on Lessons From Scaling The Team From 40 To 1,500 People, How Daniel Thinks About Continuous Learning & Self-Development and Why CEOs Hiring Themselves Out Of Roles Is Wrong
Aug 16, 2019
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Kan: Graduated in 2009 with only two job offers out of 30
“I applied to like 30 banking jobs, but it was in 2009, and so I didn't get any jobs. I got, I think, two jobs. One was at a startup in San Francisco, and the other was to teach English in Korea.”
Daniel Kan Aug 16, 2019 ▶ 4:04 20VC: Cruise's Daniel Kan on Lessons From Scaling The Team From 40 To 1,500 People, How Daniel Thinks About Continuous Learning & Self-Development and Why CEOs Hiring Themselves Out Of Roles Is Wrong
Aug 16, 2019
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Kan: Asking candidates to summarize their experience tests their communication skills
“I always ask people to summarize their work experience. I obviously have their resume in front of me, but what they highlight, how much detail they go into reveals a lot about the type of Person they are, and if they are good at clear communication, and that's…”
Daniel Kan Aug 16, 2019 ▶ 19:44 20VC: Cruise's Daniel Kan on Lessons From Scaling The Team From 40 To 1,500 People, How Daniel Thinks About Continuous Learning & Self-Development and Why CEOs Hiring Themselves Out Of Roles Is Wrong
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