Is This Going to Be a Winner or Should I Join When It's a Series B Series C?

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I feel like Hunter walk wrote a very good post on it he said that people who are joining the world for new should generally join mid stage companies because mid stage companies you get some mentorship and it's not just basically whatever needs to be done. Mid stage company I would define as something that is a multi hundred percent company but not maybe a thousand person company somewhere from 300 to 500 people with strong product market channel fit. So looking back in my career of always without any thinking about it I was employee number six seven or eight hundred Google employee number few hundreds at Facebook Employee number seven eight hundred square door dash I was like you later because just through an acquisition so it was like I think one

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?