Executive Assistant
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Greze: Town drives early growth via underserved roles like HR and EAs
“There are other functions, like executive assistants, chiefs of staff HR team members, finance, like, some more junior finance team members that don't, there's, don't have that much AI in their day-to-day. They, like, really don't. And a lot of their workflows…”
Houssier: Human EAs will always beat LLMs on interpersonal context
“And this is where your EA will always be better than an LLM because she knows the type of people you are okay to have lunch with, or maybe they have the context because, ah.”
Hire executive assistants for decade-long tenure and chiefs of staff for slope
“The way I break it down is, assistant, you find someone you want to go a decade with. The intimacy and the compound, you know, that relationship is super important. And so you go deep, and that means you, Probably don't find a founder, because they're not gonn…”
Crivello: Selling AI EAs to CEOs Fails Because CEOs Won't Tinker
“The problem with EA is, like, the CEO has no willingness to actually tinker and play with the platform.”
Weisbrot: An executive assistant is the last hire I would ever make
“That's the last hire that I would ever think of hiring because for me, like all of the energy should go to the clients and not to me.”
Larson: Calibrate executive presentations by pre-testing with chiefs of staff or EAs
“Testing a little bit with Folks who have context that aren't the exec themselves is the easiest way to help calibrate.”
Lavingia: Software stacks like Zapier and Calendly outperform human executive assistants
“Everyone I think can operate like as if you had a full-time EA running your life for you. You just now pay a couple hundred bucks to three or four different tools that give you that, that's actually an even better experience because software Is often a little …”
Herold: CEOs without an executive assistant are acting as one
“If you don't have an assistant, you are one. And I often get CEOs will talk about wanting to hire a second-in-command And the first thing they need to do is hire a really kickass executive assistant to get a lot of this stuff off their plate to free them up fo…”