Former Founders
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
A Product Market Fit Show 
the a16z Podcast
4 statements about Former Founders, every show
Srugo: Former founders require zero management in early-stage startup roles
“It's just because the level of management of founder needs, frankly, zero. And so somebody gone out for a year or two years and done something on their own. It's like, okay, I know I can be like, this is the thing you're doing and they're just going to go run …”
Top YC startups follow a secret playbook: hire former founders first
“It's sort of like a secret playbook that a lot of YC companies, some of the best ones are all following is that the first people you want to hire all former founders.”
Jain: 11x hires former founders because leadership requires scaling execution up and down
“So, like, for all of our leaders, they need to be able to scale up and down, like, on a moment's notice. And that, I think, and that's one of the reasons why we have so many former founders at ElevenX. Because they have had to do that so many times in the past…”
Conrad: Rippling employs around 50 former founders as product GMs
“Usually we love hiring former founders to run specific product lines and build them and really run them as general managers. We've been, you know, really successful at recruiting. I think we have now probably around 50 former founders that work at Rip Lane.”