GP @a16z — Investing in American dynamism 🇺🇸 and SaaS — Former SVP/GM @CiscoSecurity — Founder/CEO @OpenDNS — Anthropologist — Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu
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Sep 18, 2019 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
1/ Thread! 👇🏼
I bucket my workflows into three functional areas: 1) Deal process 2) Deal docs 3) Deal actions
2/ Deal process is everything pre-term sheet. That means tracking pipeline, referrer, existing investors, founders, some metrics (ARR, etc.), pass notes, etc. Airtable works very well for this. Have a column for “follow up in x months” if you’re multistage.
Aug 22, 2019 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
1/ Here's a contrarian take (or not?): Ignoring the need to sell a role, a great manager can hire A+ people just by looking at a resume and doing about 8 hours of references. No interview needed.
2/ Most people wildly over-rotate on interview process and a battery of interviews when the reality is that most interviewers are poorly trained, biased, and fail to capture accurate notes. Most interviewees emit strong false positive or false negative signals.
