Rachel Carlson
5 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 11, 2019 by Rachel Carlson · across every show →
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Oct 11, 2019
Carlson: Hire top executives before getting dogmatic about specific roles or titles
“So I think it's the long-term relationship nurturing with the smartest people you can find, and then making sure you don't get dogmatic about role and title, but instead get the very best people on the bus, and then figure out what role and what teams they sho…”
Oct 11, 2019 positive
Carlson: Founders must live near employees and customers, not capital
“So I think that that's not a great idea. I think there are, and I'll be controversial about it, I guess. I think there are three groups of people you can live near. You can live near your employees, you can live near your customers, or you can live near your c…”
Oct 11, 2019 positive
Carlson: Early-stage startups win tech talent better in Denver than SF
“So you just have to think about it as a different funnel. So I think in San Francisco, the funnel is very, very wide, but your chance at winning at the bottom of the funnel when you're an early stage company is incredibly hard when you're competing with Google…”
Oct 11, 2019 neutral
Oct 11, 2019 negative
Carlson: Splitting tech and operational teams in different cities is "bananas"
“And so the starting advice was keep your leadership and your tech team in San Francisco and have everybody else go somewhere else more affordable. But I thought that was bananas because I needed our product team to be constantly working with our coaches to bui…”