Reses: Underdog Company Alumni Make Grittier Hires Than Top-Tier Tech Employees
Jackie Reses · Jackie Reses: The Most Powerful Woman in Finance; Making $50BN for Yahoo on Alibaba | E996 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Mar 31, 2023 · at 14:01
Jackie Reses, former Head of HR at Yahoo and current Chair & CEO of Lead Bank, shares observations on identifying resilient talent across tech company talent pools.
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“Anyone who went to Yahoo was grittier than a lot of the people who worked at higher profile companies that were just minting money, and when you came to Yahoo, you had to work a little harder, and so I find places like that are incredible places to go higher, where people might have a little bit of a chip on their shoulder, they might have to work harder, they might have to be scrappier than places where gold falls from the sky.”
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