Olof Mathé
8 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 25, 2019 by Olof Mathé · across every show →
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Jan 25, 2019
Mathé: SaaS companies over $1M ARR should transition to specialist hires
“If you're a SaaS company and a decent economics and you're north of a million dollar ARR, that's probably one way of looking at it. If you have more than eight direct reports, it's probably, you know, attempt to make the move from a generalist hire to a more s…”
Jan 25, 2019
Jan 25, 2019
Mathé: Hire senior consultants before making full-time executive department hires
“I see it really helpful if you're building out whatever it is, HR or sales or marketing, or perhaps product or design, whatever function it might be engineering for the first time to have a very senior consultant come in and work with you for a good couple of …”
Jan 25, 2019
Mathé: Experienced leaders must demonstrate clear self-awareness of development areas
“For someone who has been a functional leader for a long time, I'd expect enough self-awareness and introspection for them to have a couple of areas of professional development they're looking at, they're working on”
Jan 25, 2019
Mathé: Senior consultants can evaluate and recruit department VPs for founders
“This consultant can help you find the senior leader. You very likely don't even know how to interview someone in that function. And so you can pay them and they can help you find the right senior leader for that function.”
Jan 25, 2019
Mathé: Hire functional leads once you have more than eight direct reports
“So I think for any founder who might not be CEO, I would almost say the rule of thumb is as soon as you have more than eight direct reports, you need to hire someone to replace yourself or at least take over most of the work. And ideally they become an entire …”
Jan 25, 2019
Mathé: Candidates avoiding tough CEO talks will repeat that behavior at new jobs
“Have they thought through the conditions, like what exactly it is that they're not satisfied with, and what it is they're looking for next, and how do they know they can't get that from their job currently, and have they even entertained a conversation with th…”
Jan 25, 2019
Mathé: Scrappy startup generalists rarely scale organizations or build processes
“You start with a generalist who totally knows how startups work, is super scrappy, able to contribute to, you know, five other functions out of their area of direct domain expertise. And the issue with that candidate or that person in your company is they're v…”