Jake Stauch
9 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 23, 2025 by Jake Stauch · across every show →
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Oct 23, 2025 positive
Stauch: Product teams must embed directly with customers, not rely on 30-minute interviews
“You have to be embedded with a customer and it's not, oh, I'm going to schedule a customer interview and I'm going to have an engineer talk to a customer for 30 minutes because we're doing a customer interview and they've got a list of questions they're going …”
Oct 23, 2025 positive
Stauch: Serval biases hiring toward technical generalists over domain experience
“No, I think we've definitely decided to bias more on really smart generalists that hopefully are technical or quantitative in some way, because I think all these technologies are going to change very quickly. The way of doing things is going to change very qui…”
Oct 23, 2025 neutral
Stauch: IT buyers underreport pain points due to pride in workarounds
“The IT buyer in particular really prides themselves on figuring things out and being a problem solver. And so they don't think about a lot of this process as being problematic because they figured it out. It works and it's quite effective.”
Oct 23, 2025 positive
Stauch: Interrogating candidate life decisions reveals personal agency vs drifting
“I love a storytelling interview where I ask people to tell me their story, starting with where they went to school, why, what they did there, internships, why they went and took their first job, their next job, and then I just double click into things that I f…”
Oct 23, 2025 positive
Stauch: Ask prospects what they would delegate to an assistant
“One of the questions I started asking that I thought was really interesting is if you could hire somebody today to just sit next to you and do work for you, what would you have them do? And it's another way of getting at what are you spending time on that you …”
Oct 23, 2025 negative
Stauch: Hiring merely 'good enough' candidates rapidly degrades company talent
“When we're looking at candidates that we're bringing in, I like to make people tell me on the interview panel, who are they better than at the company? Because I think what often happens at your company. What often happens is coming to scale is you bring in pe…”
Oct 23, 2025 bearish
Stauch: Product-oriented forward-deployed engineers will reduce PM and SE hiring
“I think the need for a lot of product managers is probably going to go down. If you hire really product oriented for deployed software engineers, then they're going to be increasingly making the decisions on what makes sense to build for the max Some number of…”
Oct 23, 2025
Stauch: Serval evaluates every job candidate on their ability to recruit
“We evaluate every candidate on their ability to recruit the next candidate, and we consider that very highly. And that could be them actually being somebody that goes out and makes phone calls and recruits, or also just being somebody who's so good that we kno…”