Vice President

“There's also another layer to this, which is as you go down in seniority, you're less likely to recommend your role. So execs, VPs, maybe even directors are sort of more likely to recommend their role than people who are crises.”

“And whatever, if any VPs get this far on the pod, whatever you do, do not reach out to your VCs to say there's problems with their CEO. You will, you're losing your job. And not only are you losing your job, it doesn't matter if you're right. You're your, at s…”

“To mitigate that, I actually recommend just like set it up on a local Mac. Because there the risk is much lower than if you're setting it up on a VPS. Like a VPS is this thing that's in the cloud and it's like constantly connected to the internet. And it's jus…”

“In engineering, if you're insane, like, if you're a hundred times better than other people are in, in, in this discipline usually you can make more money than a than a vice president.”

“We've got a vice president who isn't cuckoo for cocoa puffs and who actually understands what AI is.”

“It's a terrible system. It makes no sense. They just shouldn't have at POTUS or at VP. It should just be Trump or Biden, right?”

“So the average tenure of a VP, if they're good, is probably three and a half years, right?”

“Shocked how many people I interviewed that were senior directors, VPs, never fired someone before. I was like, okay, this is a pretty big red flag to me.”

“Your job as leaders with your VPs is not to tell them what to do. It's to backfill them. This is where the founder mode comes in, not to do their job, but to back, not everyone can be great at everything. So you've got to backfill them.”

“The difference between a senior manager and a director is kind of how you lead and the work you're doing. And you can get as far as senior manager by being really strong in your function and being really good at getting things done. As a director, it becomes m…”

“I have never in SAS in B to B with, The high margins we have, with the recurring revenue we have, with the upsell opportunities that we generally have. I have never seen a great VP of any role, sales, marketing, customer sales, eng or product, not be a creativ…”

“A great VP is always cheaper than a mediocre manager for 50% less.”

“When you're a VP, you're really working through managers. And you can't actually do any of the work yourself. You have to be a leader and kind of inspire.”

“Move on from any VP that isn't amazing. I think this advice has been given and repeated many times over, but it's doesn't make it wrong. If you've hired a VP, say it's marketing or any other function, and if he or she isn't absolutely awesome after a couple of…”

“Just remember time never turns a mediocre VP into a good one. It just never does. And especially never listen to your VCs or investors that tell you this.”

“You do not have to sequence it perfectly, and we've talked about this on Sastr. It's a classic post of what order to sequence it in, but the real key to understand, and this is not intuitive until you're later, is any great VP is accretive.”

“Any VP role is 50% recruiting, especially engineering and sales.”

“I think this is true, but I blame the CEOs for lowering the bar on hiring for VPs.”

“The great marketers don't spend money on, on programs that don't perform, right? So I think this is true, but I blame the CEOs for lowering the bar on hiring for VPs.”

“So if you're a thirty-five-year-old VP at a firm, and the firm's been successful, you're not gonna get credit for passing on a deal. And you only get paid for the stuff that you do do.”

“When you're hiring that vice president, they have to be able to roll up their sleeves as well. I've experienced firsthand where you hire someone Who is at this level, at the strategic level, putting in all the operations, but has no idea what the customer pain…”