Hoffman: The most common startup CEO mistake is mismanaging hiring cadence
Reid Hoffman · Reid Hoffman: Better Decisions, Fewer Mistakes · Sep 20, 2022 · at 5:16
Reid Hoffman (partner at Greylock, LinkedIn co-founder) discusses common executive hiring pitfalls in high-growth startups with Shane Parrish.
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“Probably the most common mistake is where do you get the cadence of hiring, and the fact that you need to be hiring and adjusting. So look, usually when you're moving very quickly and changing your level of scale with a number of employees, it's kind of a tempo in this, usually you're going to need to hire in some external people in the senior roles in order to really make that work.”
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