Niedel: Scale by hiring C-suite executives with experience beyond current stage
Ryan Niedel · Every New Level Has a New Devil - He Proved It From $5M to $75M · Feb 1, 2023 · at 26:33
Ryan Niedel, CEO of MIT45, discusses executive hiring strategy while scaling past $25 million in revenue.
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“It's starting to look for people that have already been past where we're going to. It's not allowing people to necessarily, especially in that C-suite roles, not have them learn on the job, right? I need people that have already been past that because I want to shorten down the time that it takes for us to grow and really hiring very, very brilliant people for all of the C-suite roles and then empowering them to do the same.”
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