Grace: Big-tech PMs often fail at early-stage startups
Merci Grace · Insider's Guide To Building Great Product w/Merci Grace, Slack's First Head of Product · Oct 9, 2018 · at 11:10
Merci Grace, former Head of Product at Slack, explains why candidates from Google and Facebook struggle in small startup environments.
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“I have seen just hard fails from people who kind of like have that Silicon Valley passport that you're looking for. Oh, three years at Google, and then four years at Facebook. Fantastic. Not for your 20% startup. That person, especially people from Facebook that I interviewed were often very reluctant to make a decision without data, especially in enterprise when you have low volume parts of the funnel that are incredibly important”
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