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Execs

Sarah Smith (Partner at Bain Capital Ventures, ex VP at Quora, ex Director at Facebook)

Feb 15, 2022
55:11

Sarah Smith is currently a partner at Bain Capital Ventures after an early career of building elite HR teams for huge tech players, including Facebook and Quora, where she helped scale Quora from 40 to 160 people in 3 years. 

In this episode, we discussed hiring that first crucial people person, how to train first time management, how to nail goal setting, and how to improve vesting schedules. 

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Execs is a show for founders, operators, and pioneers who want to understand the playbooks, frameworks, and tactics that leading tech companies today have used to scale.  To engage further:

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Hosted by: @eriktorenberg
Guest: @sasmith4
Produced by: @jacksonsteger
Brought to you by: @beondeck

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