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Chellappa: Founders should lead sales and close the first 10 accounts
“I'm a firm believer that this, that the founder should be doing sales, and doing some other marketing for the first two years. They should be the one closing the first 10 accounts. If you're not doing the, I closed the first 40 accounts, because we were bootst…”
Chellappa: 90% of Employee Failures Stem from Attitude, Not Skill Gaps
“90% of the time, if they lose their job, whether they lose it voluntarily, or you let them go, is because of some attitude related issue. Either personality, or because they have an attitude issue, or they can't work within the team, or there's a culture fit i…”
Chellappa: High-attribute candidates eventually outperform experienced, low-attribute hires
“When they're coming in, the performance is going to lag. But over time, their performance is going to exceed the other individuals.”
Chellappa: You know within six to eight weeks if a hire will work out
“In six to eight weeks, you know the person's gonna work out on that. Every single time. Every single time I've had to let a person go, even a year later, I knew within six to eight weeks if that person wasn't going to work.”
Chellappa: Scaling Past $5M ARR Requires Hiring Experienced Executives
“The hardest, I think this is the hardest place to hire, because you really need somebody who's done this before. You don't need a newbie. You don't need somebody who's been an AE who wants to be a VP of sales. So you don't, or you don't need a, you know, someb…”
Chellappa: Startups should always choose being understaffed over overstaffed
“Understaffed is better than overstaffed all the time. You know, I absolutely believe it. And I really think that's the way especially startups should be functioning.”
Chellappa: Hiring a Good VP of Sales and Marketing Takes 80 to 90 Days
“Finding a good VP of sales and marketing Are really the hard ones, which can take anywhere from 80 to 90 days, sometimes even longer.”
Chellappa: A wrong early hire sets a startup back a full year
“A wrong hire will set you back a year. So if you hire the wrong person, you'll end up doing their job, and then you'll have to get back here, and then you'll have to find the next person, and then you'll be gun-shy about hiring the next person. That person's q…”
Chellappa: Critical startup hires should be rejected unless they are a 'hell yeah'
“What I really realized is if your answer is not a hell yeah when you hire somebody, when you're looking at somebody, especially for a critical role, then it's a no.”
Chellappa: Questioning an employee's fit three times means they are wrong fit
“If you repeatedly asking the question, if the person is in the right role, then the person is not in the right role. If you're going to ask that question more than three times, and you keep a counter, and if you had three different times the same question on t…”