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In tech hiring, men typically negotiate salary offers while women do not
“And I'll tell you that women typically don't negotiate and men do. So that's my experience.”
Any process not driving speed or product quality destroys company culture
“There's, companies do better when there is, yeah, just minimum process and the process and means to an end, and that end is, you know, it's either for, to help people go faster, or to help them ship better products. Any other process is waste of time, and you …”
Leaders must overcompensate when rewarding ambitious, high-risk product swings
“It is much easier to deliver incremental gains, because they're, they can happen in shorter periods of time, and they're much more you know, reliable. Then to go after bigger ideas, which take more time, they're more unpredictable, right? And so as a leader, y…”
Split R&D capacity into 40% existing, 40% new, and 20% maintenance
“So let's say you invest 30 to 40% in your existing products and 30 to 40% in new products. And then the rest, whatever it is 25, 30% goes to maintain, like, KTLO and internal productivity. As part of that new products bucket, my advice is to keep at least five…”
Lacher: La Famiglia Fund I Backed Deel, Personio, and Other Unicorns
“So we've invested in 30 companies. Many of them have turned unicorns or decacorns like Deal, Presonio, Shoko, Forto, where we've had the privilege to be seed investors.”
Personio records and posts materials for every product review on Slack
“Because I think transparency is very, very important, we record every review, and we have a Slack chat, we use Slack, and we post every, about every review, the materials the recording the action items, the ETAs, like, everything is documented,”