Duggal: Founders err by hiring product leads based on big-tech credentials
Jag Duggal · Jag Duggal: How We Scaled Nubank to 80M Users; Google's Brutal Hiring Practices | E995 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Mar 29, 2023 · at 58:56
Jag Duggal, CPO at Nubank and former product leader at Facebook and Google, shares advice on common founder missteps when building product management teams.
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“The biggest problem and mistake founders, founders make is they go for the credential of the person who succeeded at big company XYZ, which is a very different mindset than succeeding in a highly ambiguous pre-success mode of a startup.”
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