Product leaders with heavy outside engagements are major hiring red flags
Vlad Loktev · Embracing chaos, inquiry over advocacy, poking the bear, and “impact, impact, impact” | Vlad Loktev · Sep 1, 2024 · at 34:46
Vlad Loktev, partner at Index Ventures and former GM at Airbnb, discusses why he avoids hiring product executives who spend significant time building external profiles through speaking, advising, or angel investing.
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“When I was actually hiring product leaders and there's some product leaders would do Lots of different engagements outside of the company, whether it's investing, advising, speaking, attending conference, all those things. And they were huge red flags to me because it was clear that this person, there was just something missing in their day to day. They didn't try to put them, like all of them into the thing that they were doing.”
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