Young: Executive hires fail when candidates only understand larger company scale
Tracy Young · Tracy Young on Scaling PlanGrid to 400+ People with YC Partner Kat Manalac · Y Combinator · Jun 12, 2019 · at 37:50
Former PlanGrid CEO Tracy Young reflects on executive hiring pitfalls and scaling challenges during an interview with YC podcast host Craig Cannon.
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“And these are people who had done it before, and I think where we got it wrong was, when they did do it before, was scale. Like, they were either at a company that was way bigger, and they just had never seen a startup of this size, because it's painful at this size. You don't have like, 50 recruiters helping you recruit. We have a much smaller recruiting team, et cetera. And that's when we got it wrong, was when we got the wrong match in terms of scale.”
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