Rob Khazzam

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May 1, 2023 positive
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Khazzam: Float runs blind simultaneous voting in hiring debriefs
“So before we hired anyone, before we shared feedback, I, you know, we do debriefs and we'd say before anyone says anything, don't tell us what you think about the person on the count of three, thumbs up, thumbs down, so that you couldn't be biased by, you know…”
Rob Khazzam May 1, 2023 ▶ 22:12 Rob Khazzam, Founder of Float (ex-Uber GM) | How High-Performing Teams Lead to Product Market Fit · PMF Show
May 1, 2023 positive
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Khazzam: Float bans lukewarm hiring decisions, accepting only strong yeses
“That led us to decide there's no more lukewarm yeses. It's only fuck yeses, strong yeses.”
Rob Khazzam May 1, 2023 ▶ 23:47 Rob Khazzam, Founder of Float (ex-Uber GM) | How High-Performing Teams Lead to Product Market Fit · PMF Show
May 1, 2023
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Khazzam: Float Blocked All-Day Tuesdays for Co-Founder Recruiting
“I blocked time in my co-founder's calendars each week to say, you're not allowed to do anything from, you know, it was Tuesdays in particular. I think it was like, Eight a.m. To eight p.m. There's no internal meetings. This is recruiting time. You're either me…”
Rob Khazzam May 1, 2023 ▶ 26:11 Rob Khazzam, Founder of Float (ex-Uber GM) | How High-Performing Teams Lead to Product Market Fit · PMF Show
May 1, 2023 positive
Insight
Khazzam: Startups achieve results fastest by shrinking progress measurement timelines
“I mean, the simplest way to achieve results as a small early stage startup is to shrink the timeline through which you measure progress. So instead of saying, what are we going to get done this month? You say, what are we going to get done this week? What are …”
Rob Khazzam May 1, 2023 ▶ 10:28 Rob Khazzam, Founder of Float (ex-Uber GM) | How High-Performing Teams Lead to Product Market Fit · PMF Show
May 1, 2023 negative
Insight
Khazzam: Strategy and planning have little value for early-stage startups
“And so I think it was really that this idea that strategy and planning have little value at an early stage company. It's about execution.”
Rob Khazzam May 1, 2023 ▶ 11:12 Rob Khazzam, Founder of Float (ex-Uber GM) | How High-Performing Teams Lead to Product Market Fit · PMF Show
May 1, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Khazzam: Radical Candor is mandatory reading for Float employees
“So we introduced that book to the team early. It's a mandatory reading for everyone on the float team.”
Rob Khazzam May 1, 2023 ▶ 18:45 Rob Khazzam, Founder of Float (ex-Uber GM) | How High-Performing Teams Lead to Product Market Fit · PMF Show
May 1, 2023
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Khazzam: Scaling Float from 4 to 15 People Was Hardest Phase
“Getting from four people to 10 or 15 was the hardest. We spent hundreds of hours trying to convince engineers to join our team and no one wanted to.”
Rob Khazzam May 1, 2023 ▶ 28:25 Rob Khazzam, Founder of Float (ex-Uber GM) | How High-Performing Teams Lead to Product Market Fit · PMF Show
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