Danny Rimer: Diverse Teams Protect Scaling Startups From Groupthink
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Danny Rimer, Partner at Index Ventures, explains why scaling startups must hire for diverse backgrounds rather than relying on familiar networks.
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“And what I mean by diverse team is backgrounds, ages, obviously genders, experience, culture, so that you're sheltering yourself from the groupthink that sets in when you hire people from the same university or the same generation with very similar experiences.”
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