Domain Experience
topic on 2 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
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David Lieb: Domain experience anti-correlates with top PM performance
“Most of the really strong PMs that have emerged, say, on the Google Photos team came from backgrounds with no experience in this domain. I would probably go so far as to say that it's anti-correlated with the top performers.”
Blond: Startups should not prioritize domain experience when hiring sales leaders
“There are only so many really amazing sales leaders that exist to begin with. And if you limit your candidate population to a very small domain, like let's just say property tech or something like that, how many unbelievable property tech sales leaders are the…”
Almost all innovative products are built by teams without domain expertise
“Look across our industry, across time, at all the innovative products, almost all of them came from people and teams that had no real domain experience.”
Blond: Domain experience is largely irrelevant when hiring tech sales leaders
“The reality is, I think that with few exceptions, the domain experience largely becomes irrelevant over time. And Smart people learn businesses. And so actually solving for like a track record of performance into quality hire over someone with this specific ty…”