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Does your business complexity justify changing senior finance leadership? Compare your current leader to five dimensions that define a truly gifted CFO.
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Blackstone's CTO describes the qualities he looks for in early stage companies and predicts AI's impact on real estate, credit, and energy.
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Hiring the right executives at the right time is the key to scaling your company. How to find, vet, recruit, and retain the best talent.
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The speakers at our Connect/Enterprise event share their experiences across a range of company-building topics, from product strategy to COVID-19.
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a16z’s Ben Horowitz and Databricks’ Ali Ghodsi sit down to talk about hiring and firing executives, including the common reasons an exec fails, why micromanagement can be a good idea, and the difference between someone who has written a playbook and someone who has only run one.
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Building your executive team is key to scaling your company quickly and effectively. These first principles lay the foundation for making those key hires.
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From stock options to compensation benchmarking, these are some of the most important topics for late-stage CEOs to consider when putting together an executive compensation package.
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a16z’s step-by-step hiring process for hiring the right executives to scale your company.
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As your technical org starts “shipping its org chart,” how you structure the relationship between your product and engineering teams becomes key to scaling.
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Sales leaders who operate on gut feel likely won’t scale your GTM through the growth stages—you need a process-oriented CRO to manage, coordinate, and inspect all of your revenue-generating functions.
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Once you have a foothold in the market, you need to hire leaders who can scale your company to the next level of ARR. Our approach to evolving your go-to-market organization and hiring growth-stage GTM leaders.
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Great SVPs of engineering understand what products your company needs to bring to market, then translates those into an org structure, reporting lines, team composition, and engineering process to get you there.
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As a technical and product founder, this is likely one of the most emotional hires you’ll have to make. How to recognize when you need a CPO and what to look for in a potential candidate.
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During the growth stages, you need executives who can build out processes that both work as you scale and address what breaks down as you do. Our approaches to hiring leaders who can scale with the complexity of your business.
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As you generate more revenue from growing an account post-sales than from landing new logos, your CCO ensures that you’re retaining and expanding your existing customer base.
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As your company evolves from product-market fit through the growth stages, the most important aspects of marketing for your company will change—and as they do, so will the type of marketing leader you need.
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Hiring the right chief operating officer can be a critical step in setting you and your company up for long-term scale, but it isn’t a given that every CEO should hire a COO or that every company will be better off for hiring one.
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While it can be easy to see the CFO as a “scorekeeper,” a great CFO actually puts points on the board by strategically and opportunistically growing your company.
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A great general counsel will give you direct, continuous, and time-sensitive advice on key decisions before you’ve committed significant resources, thereby helping to unlock more revenue.
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A great CHRO understands your company, knows where it’s headed, and builds out programs to attract, retain, develop, and motivate the talent to get you there.
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Your CISO fights on the front lines against ransomware attacks, bears responsibility for data security amid tightening regulations, and serves as the key defense against some of the biggest existential threats your company faces.
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Founders and execs from Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Databricks, Gong, and Yubico share their experiences and advice on growing enterprise startups.
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An Internet news outlet is asking a lot of people I know, and some I don’t, what I’ve been up to lately. Lord knows what they’ll ultimately publish, so I thought I’d just write this instead.
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Building your board forward from product-market fit—instead of backward from an IPO date—makes it easier to find the right advisors at the right time as you scale.
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Since Netflix started in the late 90s as a DVD-by-mail rental service competing with Blockbuster, it has completely reinvented itself... twice – first, when it went from DVD rental to video streaming platform, and then again when it went from licensing to producing original content. But what does it takes to create an organization capable of reinventing itself? Netflix CEO and co-founder Reed Hastings explains...
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When you run a company, big things stay on your mind. Will we make the quarter? Did we hire the right engineers? Will the release be on time? Do we have a quality problem? Do we have enough money in the bank?
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My greatest disappointment as CEO was the day I realized that helping my executives develop their skill sets was a bad idea. Up to that point in my career, I prided myself on my ability to develop people and get the most...
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Don Faul, head of operations at Pinterest and a former U.S. Marine Corps Platoon Commander, grills Marc Andreessen in front of a crowd of veterans at an event we hosted for bringing more veterans into startups. The discu...
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One obvious yet under-appreciated law of business physics is: For any given company, the larger the company becomes, the more opportunities emerge to screw it up.
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For Jim Gilliam, the founder of NationBuilder, community is everything. When he needed a double lung transplant, Gilliam turned to the Internet and to his online community to make it happen. He's organized political camp...
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Warning: This document was written 15 years ago and is probably not relevant for today’s product managers. I present it here merely as an example of a useful training document.
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Blackstone's CTO describes the qualities he looks for in early stage companies and predicts AI's impact on real estate, credit, and energy.
-
Hiring the right executives at the right time is the key to scaling your company. How to find, vet, recruit, and retain the best talent.
-
Since Netflix started in the late 90s as a DVD-by-mail rental service competing with Blockbuster, it has completely reinvented itself... twice – first, when it went from DVD rental to video streaming platform, and then again when it went from licensing to producing original content. But what does it takes to create an organization capable of reinventing itself? Netflix CEO and co-founder Reed Hastings explains...
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Don Faul, head of operations at Pinterest and a former U.S. Marine Corps Platoon Commander, grills Marc Andreessen in front of a crowd of veterans at an event we hosted for bringing more veterans into startups. The discu...
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For Jim Gilliam, the founder of NationBuilder, community is everything. When he needed a double lung transplant, Gilliam turned to the Internet and to his online community to make it happen. He's organized political camp...
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Does your business complexity justify changing senior finance leadership? Compare your current leader to five dimensions that define a truly gifted CFO.
-
The speakers at our Connect/Enterprise event share their experiences across a range of company-building topics, from product strategy to COVID-19.
-
a16z’s Ben Horowitz and Databricks’ Ali Ghodsi sit down to talk about hiring and firing executives, including the common reasons an exec fails, why micromanagement can be a good idea, and the difference between someone who has written a playbook and someone who has only run one.
-
Building your executive team is key to scaling your company quickly and effectively. These first principles lay the foundation for making those key hires.
-
From stock options to compensation benchmarking, these are some of the most important topics for late-stage CEOs to consider when putting together an executive compensation package.
-
a16z’s step-by-step hiring process for hiring the right executives to scale your company.
-
As your technical org starts “shipping its org chart,” how you structure the relationship between your product and engineering teams becomes key to scaling.
-
Sales leaders who operate on gut feel likely won’t scale your GTM through the growth stages—you need a process-oriented CRO to manage, coordinate, and inspect all of your revenue-generating functions.
-
Once you have a foothold in the market, you need to hire leaders who can scale your company to the next level of ARR. Our approach to evolving your go-to-market organization and hiring growth-stage GTM leaders.
-
Great SVPs of engineering understand what products your company needs to bring to market, then translates those into an org structure, reporting lines, team composition, and engineering process to get you there.
-
As a technical and product founder, this is likely one of the most emotional hires you’ll have to make. How to recognize when you need a CPO and what to look for in a potential candidate.
-
During the growth stages, you need executives who can build out processes that both work as you scale and address what breaks down as you do. Our approaches to hiring leaders who can scale with the complexity of your business.
-
As you generate more revenue from growing an account post-sales than from landing new logos, your CCO ensures that you’re retaining and expanding your existing customer base.
-
As your company evolves from product-market fit through the growth stages, the most important aspects of marketing for your company will change—and as they do, so will the type of marketing leader you need.
-
Hiring the right chief operating officer can be a critical step in setting you and your company up for long-term scale, but it isn’t a given that every CEO should hire a COO or that every company will be better off for hiring one.
-
While it can be easy to see the CFO as a “scorekeeper,” a great CFO actually puts points on the board by strategically and opportunistically growing your company.
-
A great general counsel will give you direct, continuous, and time-sensitive advice on key decisions before you’ve committed significant resources, thereby helping to unlock more revenue.
-
A great CHRO understands your company, knows where it’s headed, and builds out programs to attract, retain, develop, and motivate the talent to get you there.
-
Your CISO fights on the front lines against ransomware attacks, bears responsibility for data security amid tightening regulations, and serves as the key defense against some of the biggest existential threats your company faces.
-
Founders and execs from Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Databricks, Gong, and Yubico share their experiences and advice on growing enterprise startups.
-
An Internet news outlet is asking a lot of people I know, and some I don’t, what I’ve been up to lately. Lord knows what they’ll ultimately publish, so I thought I’d just write this instead.
-
Building your board forward from product-market fit—instead of backward from an IPO date—makes it easier to find the right advisors at the right time as you scale.
-
When you run a company, big things stay on your mind. Will we make the quarter? Did we hire the right engineers? Will the release be on time? Do we have a quality problem? Do we have enough money in the bank?
-
My greatest disappointment as CEO was the day I realized that helping my executives develop their skill sets was a bad idea. Up to that point in my career, I prided myself on my ability to develop people and get the most...
-
One obvious yet under-appreciated law of business physics is: For any given company, the larger the company becomes, the more opportunities emerge to screw it up.
-
Warning: This document was written 15 years ago and is probably not relevant for today’s product managers. I present it here merely as an example of a useful training document.