The Ledger
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Sparrow: Having too many options kills startups lacking focus
“The choices that we have are growing, which sounds like a good thing, but it's actually not because it means that, you know, it's becoming much more challenging to pick the right path because we only have so many resources and we can only, you know, we, if we …”
Sparrow: Start every job interview by letting the candidate ask questions first
“I always start every interview by asking people what, you know, what questions they have for me. I flip it around immediately and I tell, I can tell an enormous amount about people by You know, how they think about that question, right?”
Sparrow: Scale B2B startups through influencer alliances rather than just direct sales
“Our entire approach around the market has not been to go chase
The next sale only.
It's been who are, you know, really understanding kind of the network around our target audiences and who do those folks really depend on and going in and getting close and bu…”
Sparrow: Transitioning from corporate to startup leadership requires accepting you are usually wrong
“Without a doubt, at the beginning, it was an entire shift in, in my mental framework. You know, I came from a career that I was in the military, then I was in, you know, I was in consulting, I was a consulting leader, and then I was a corporate leader. And in …”