Dharmesh Shah: People are creatives, completers, or collaborators.
Dharmesh Shah · How To Come Up With Billion Dollar Business Ideas | Hubspot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah · Jul 12, 2022 · at 23:22
Dharmesh Shah, co-founder and CTO of HubSpot, shares his mental model for organizational talent profiling and team dynamics on My First Million.
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“They're like three kind of vectors of kind of measurement of people. One is that you have the creatives, and these are people that start things. They have ideas. They have a 180 mile, you know, ideas an hour kind of thing if you sit down in a room with them. Then there are the, so they're the starters. Then you have the completers. Those are the people that can make a list of like, here are the things that need to get done in order for us to ship a product or do whatever. And often those folks are at odds. Like the idea folks are kind of really frustrated with the completers that are like, ah, I'm just trying to check a box and make our, it's like, yes, but I'm doing this thing and it's not good enough yet. You have that tension. And that's what brings in the third person, which is the collaborator. And the collaborator is really good at communicating, is really good at bridging gaps across departments, across individual people, and kind of pulling it all together. And usually you're looking for someone that has at least some, like a nine or a 10 on one of those dimensions, a seven or an eight on another one, and usually very low on the third, right?”
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