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Frank Slootman: Experience things first hand. Especially in the first 90 days as a leader in a new org, don’t rely on second or third or fourth hand information. Go directly to the source: customers and the people doing the work.

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Shane Parrish2 years ago

Watch the rest

xoxo, Nicole2 years ago

“A feeble person with no fortitude.” There’s a lot of those out there.

Rufus2 years ago

Candid advice.

stuffonfire2 years ago

side note, if you are taking over an engineering org as VP/E, CTO or similar, go directly to the code, get your dev environment set up, and close some tickets 1st hand just like any other new hire only way to really understand what’s holding the org back

Court Reinland2 years ago

Y, so much this

deepa 🏴‍☠️2 years ago

💯+ experience your product as a customer

Alex MacGregor2 years ago

Great advice!

Pedro - Building SniperAI 🥷2 years ago

Don't shy away from the ugly truths

Radu Ursu2 years ago

Great words! Note to self

Christiano Duran🦾🌱2 years ago

Always have one boot on the ground 🥾

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