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Insight
Logvinov: Founders shouldn't write initial sales playbooks for hires
“I think if the founder sort of hires salespeople who he gives the playbook to that the founder developed, it's going to be less effective and less efficient than if Founder brings in the person and lets them create something that they would feel ownership over…”
Zhenya Loginov Jul 27, 2022 ▶ 15:01 20VC: The Memo: What is a Sales Playbook? Does the Founder Need to Create It? Should the First Sales Hire Be a Leader or a Rep?
Insight
Interview panels cannot set the hiring bar for candidate selection
“It's only the hiring manager who really, really sets the hiring bar and your panel will not be able, your panel doesn't exactly know what you're hiring for.”
Zhenya Loginov Jun 22, 2022 ▶ 29:39 Mire CRO Zhenya Loginov: Hiring Tips for Sales; Why Dropbox Lost Enterprise | 20VC #900 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Reject resumes that lack any single must-have hiring criterion
“The second step is as a hiring manager, I try to have very clear must have criterias. Three to five must have criterias for the role. And I ruthlessly decline candidates who don't meet at least one of those criterias on the resume stage.”
Zhenya Loginov Jun 22, 2022 ▶ 25:34 Mire CRO Zhenya Loginov: Hiring Tips for Sales; Why Dropbox Lost Enterprise | 20VC #900 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Disclosure
Clements: Accel did not sell secondary shares in Miro at $17B valuation
“We didn't take liquidity out of Miro at seventeen billion”
Miles Clements Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 48:48 "Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Des Traynor: Miro succeeded through extreme execution and fending off FigJam
“They have just been an execution machine. For a really specific problem, and they kind of stood up against an external, what could have been a threat in FigJam, and they've done really well through that as well.”
Des Traynor Jul 18, 2022 ▶ 16:31 Des Traynor: How I Founded Intercom; Product Marketing Tips; Feature Creep | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lacher: Visionaries Club's LPs are exclusively unicorn founders and family business owners
“Look, I think the main difference, if you look at visionaries, is that on, on our investor side, we only have successful entrepreneurs. On the one hand side, we have 30 unicorn founders that have built great digital companies, like the founders of Miro, UiPath…”
Rob Lacher Apr 7, 2023 ▶ 20:03 Rob Lacher: How I Scaled to $600M AUM; Hiring Tips for VCs; Venture Capital in Europe vs USA | E999 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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