Mike Silagadze
6 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 16, 2018 by Mike Silagadze · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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Mar 16, 2018 negative
Silagadze: Technical founders' early sales leadership hires fail almost 100% of the time
“There's one mistake that almost every young founder makes, engineering founders in particular, honestly, almost a hundred percent of the time is at some point they decide, you know what, we need to start figuring out sales. And then they correctly assess, well…”
Mar 16, 2018 bearish
Mar 16, 2018
Mar 16, 2018
Silagadze: Top sales individual contributors usually make poor managers
“When you've got somebody who's a top rep and, you know, is clamoring for a promotion to management, more often than not, that's a bad idea. You need to figure out how to level them up and give them the opportunity for growth within the, you know, as an individ…”
Mar 16, 2018
Silagadze: Top experienced talent is harder to find because high performers are locked in
“And so as a result, people who are experienced paradoxically are, as far as the distribution, it's more challenging to find top performers because they said that the good ones are already locked in somewhere.”
Mar 16, 2018
Silagadze: Premature promotions usually lead to departures since demotions are impossible
“We've certainly made The mistake of promoting people too early, and unfortunately, that usually doesn't end well, because what tends to happen is you can't demote them, because that's, you know, politically or whatever, from an optics perspective, you can't re…”