20Growth: Biggest Growth Lessons from Instacart and Opendoor, Why 70% of Growth Experiments Should Fail and How to Fail Fast, How to Hire a Growth Team; Secrets and Tips & Why Operator Investors WIll be the Best Investors in 10 Years with Sri Batchu @ Ram
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
The Importance of Being a Good Storyteller
Being a good storyteller as a founder is crucial for fundraising, closing customers, and making executive hires. Good storytellers are adept at reading the room, being likable, and striking a balance between detail and abstraction. However, storytelling is not scalable in the long term as operationalizing and making difficult decisions are essential for business growth. Serial operators are usually better at scaling and decision-making than storytellers. It is rare for one person to excel at both storytelling and operationalizing, hence a division of roles within a founding team is beneficial. Identifying overly slick salesmanship in founders requires personal diligence and asking one-to-one questions. Leveraging personal networks to gain honest feedback on potential hires is invaluable and builds a reputation for being direct, confidential, and reliable.
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