How to Hire a Leader for a Company

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I wanted to transition to hiring talk about hiring you recently had this incredible thread on Twitter about how to hire a leader and I think maybe just a product leader maybe broadly leader. A post actually was triggered by that morning's one of my company's CEO messaged me saying wow I hired someone from this companyHow do you know this person is available in this company? And he said this is the third time I've hired based on advice you gave and these are all senior leaders here how'd you do that?! So basically what it says is in order to hire if you want to have a playbook for hiring good leaders or strong leaders for any function look at best-of-class companies, not

Gokul Rajaram serves on the executive team at DoorDash, where he leads the Caviar product line. Previously he worked at Square, where he was also on the executive team and led a number of key product lines, and as a product director at Facebook, where he helped the company transition its advertising business to become mobile-first. Earlier in his career, Gokul was a product director for Google AdSense, where he helped launch the product and grow it into a substantial portion of Google’s business.

Gokul also serves on the boards of Coinbase, Pinterest, and The Trade Desk and is a prolific angel investor, having invested in companies like Airtable, Khatabook, and 100+ more.

In this episode, you will learn:

1. How to navigate your next career

- What should you focus on in order to improve your optionality?

- What should you consider as you look for your next career adventure?

- Why join winners in a space?

- Why should people entering the workforce join mid-stage companies?

- Why there are many paths to success.

2. How to build a product development process at early-stage companies

- What does the best product development process typically look like at different company stages?

- What are some common pitfalls when building these processes?

3. Hiring PMs

- When should you hire your first PM? What should you look for?