Mercenaries
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
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Benefiting from mercenary employees requires a churn-and-burn startup model
“There's like the mercenary type, which is okay. Super smart, probably super pedigreed. And like, and really what they're doing is they are using your company as a launchpad for something else. They are using, they're using their company to like collect a bunch…”
Rayapati: IPO-prep executive hires are mercenaries obsessed with daily stock prices
“Because in the preparation for IPO, in order to make the company big, we bring, like, a lot of these new leaders. Most of them turn out to be mercenaries, not missionaries, and it's amazing how many of them are worried about stock price on a day-to-day basis.”