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Insight
PM candidates must be able to hold attention for 45 minutes
“Any product person who can't figure out how to entertain you for 30 to 45 minutes is definitely not worthwhile as a product person.”
Shishir Mehrotra Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:25 a16z Podcast | How Founders Hire a VP of Product
Insight
Home-court and away-court interview questions fail to calibrate PM candidates
“The home court question, you're spending your whole time trying to figure out, well, what does he want to hear? He probably thought about this way more than I have. And so you're not really getting a great calibration. On the other side, you can't separate thi…”
Shishir Mehrotra Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:51 a16z Podcast | How Founders Hire a VP of Product
Insight
The VP of Product and CEO function as co-founders
“In a product-centered company, the VP of product and the CEO, like, no matter how they got formed, they're co-founders.”
Shishir Mehrotra Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:57 a16z Podcast | How Founders Hire a VP of Product
Insight
A product leader's primary job is creating clarity from ambiguity
“The number one job of that person is to take ambiguous spaces. And turn them clear.”
Shishir Mehrotra Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:35 a16z Podcast | How Founders Hire a VP of Product
Disclosure
Poor onboarding caused a top executive hire to fail within six months
“I had to get rid of a guy that was a fantastic hire, and he got onboarded poorly, and he flushed out in six months because he just lost his rapport by not following that process.”
Shishir Mehrotra Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:57 a16z Podcast | How Founders Hire a VP of Product
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