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Max Rhodes

8 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 18, 2022 by Max Rhodes · said 12 times in 4 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Feb 18, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Faire requires annual CEO and pod-level written strategy docs
“Every year I write a strategy doc for the whole company. Every product pod writes its own strategy doc that kind of ladders up to the broader strategy doc.”
Max Rhodes Feb 18, 2022 ▶ 12:46 20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
Feb 18, 2022
Insight
Max Rhodes: In reference checks, 7/10 is poor and 9/10 is stellar
“And that one to 10, I also think is really revealing because you get calibrated on like, most people will say somewhere between seven and 10, and if you do six or seven references, you can create a composite score that like, if the person's consistently gettin…”
Max Rhodes Feb 18, 2022 ▶ 27:55 20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
Feb 18, 2022
Disclosure
Early Faire hiring mistakes stemmed from falling in love with candidates
“The big mistake that I used to make is I would fall in love with candidates. I still have this problem. But I get enamored with candidates. All of a sudden, I move into confirmation bias mode. I totally ignore any sort of red flags, just focus on all the posit…”
Max Rhodes Feb 18, 2022 ▶ 23:08 20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
Feb 18, 2022
Insight
Rhodes: Keep conducting executive reference checks until you find negative feedback
“And then using references to round that out, and to make sure that, and doing a lot of references, like, for really senior roles, five, six, seven references, one of the pieces of advice I've gotten is keep digging until you find something bad, and then are th…”
Max Rhodes Feb 18, 2022 ▶ 26:55 20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
Feb 18, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Faire's strategy drafting process grew from three weeks to three months
“Our first year, it maybe took me like two or three weeks to write it. Now it's, you know, a three month process.”
Max Rhodes Feb 18, 2022 ▶ 17:04 20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
Feb 18, 2022
Insight
Max Rhodes: Frame candidate weakness checks around interview self-disclosures
“I say, this person mentioned this was one of their weaknesses in the interview. Can you tell me a little bit more about that? And I pick out the weakness that I'm most worried about that might be the most likely to be a deal breaker. You know, when they say th…”
Max Rhodes Feb 18, 2022 ▶ 28:30 20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
Feb 18, 2022 negative
Opinion
Max Rhodes: Interviewing candidates on childhood yields less value than recent work
“But I think the value of that time is a little less than the value of more recent professional experiences.”
Max Rhodes Feb 18, 2022 ▶ 31:27 20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
Feb 18, 2022
Insight
Rhodes: Early-stage startups should prioritize speed over financial forecasting
“When you're an early stage startup, speed is so important. And there's so many unknowns that you can easily waste time trying to predict what's going to happen. And a lot of times the best way to figure out what's going to happen is just to do it.”
Max Rhodes Feb 18, 2022 ▶ 32:23 20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
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