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Jason James: Founders most frequently fire CPOs, CMOs, and Heads of Talent
“The three roles that I see that get fired over and over are CPO, CMO and head of talent. They typically have like one and a half to two year stints, and then they like move on to their next thing, you know, sort of like quietly and discreetly.”
James: Thumbtack's onboarding friction improved match quality and overall success
“At Thumbtack, you know, conventional wisdom is like remove friction from onboarding, make it easier, faster, whatever. What we found was that doesn't actually work for our product, where the friction was answering questions about your project that you're tryin…”
James: Instacart's Snap EBT integration reached $1B within a year
“When we launched Snap EBT, which is like food stamps to be able to pay with those on Instacart. It became a billion dollar business line in less than a year and then grew up to be four billion.”
James: Product specification documents will shrink from 20-pagers to one-pagers
“Articulating it in some doc, like, it becomes a one pager instead of a 20 pager.”
Jason James: Future recruiting will transition to double opt-in matchmaking
“The future is going to, when it comes to recruiting, it looks a lot more like dating where it's like there's Two swipe rights equal a match. Then it's like a double opt in, like warm intro versus most of today, how a candidate finds a company is wildly random …”