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Kan: Exec prematurely hired growth leaders before understanding its own strategy
“So we did this a lot early at exec. We tried to hire someone who knew more about growth and customer acquisition, which ultimately we needed, but we should have spent more time, in my opinion, learning what we needed, figuring out how to make it work, then fin…”
Kan: Graduated in 2009 with only two job offers out of 30
“I applied to like 30 banking jobs, but it was in 2009, and so I didn't get any jobs. I got, I think, two jobs. One was at a startup in San Francisco, and the other was to teach English in Korea.”
Kan: The initial idea for Cruise came entirely from co-founder Kyle Vogt
“When it comes to Cruise, this was all my co-founder Kyle's idea. He's a CTO now, and I was wrapping up my last startup, and it seemed like a great idea, or at the very least, a really interesting story, and it turns out it was.”