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Published · transcript-backedGokul Rajaram: recommendation
13 Jun 2022 Lenny's Podcast Gokul Rajaram on designing your product development process, when and how to hire your first PM, a playbook for hiring leaders, getting ahead in you career, how to get started angel investing, more
“I think putting in the process upfront is really important because you can flounder around and then just spending a full four or five hours upfront talking to a few folks, coming to the good process.”
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- Gokul Rajaram
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- 13 Jun 2022
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…I'm guessing that you can see a pretty big difference between the founders that you work with that do this sort of process and put in the time and don't. I think putting in the process upfront is really important because you can flounder around and then just spending a full four or five hours upfront talking to a few folks, coming to the good process. can massively improve the, because they say that it's all about once you aim, you know, the strategy or the direction you're going is much more important than the speed you go in. If you go in the wrong direction, it doesn't matter how fast you go, you're screwed. But if you go in the right direction, even if you go slightly slower, you're going to get there. So I think it's very important to set the direction of hiring. How exactly are you going to hire? What the process is? What your messaging is going to be? And really make sure you nail that before you do stuff. Once you've hired someone, you give them a title. I know you have some strong opinions about titles and how to think about titles at startups. And I'd love to hear your take on that.…
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