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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 enjoy it i think the thing is i enjoy it because i have been a founder myself not a very successful one so one of the things i love hearing i always start to tell me your founding story and every founder likes to tell the financing and that's where i listen closely for authenticity to understand how they met each other the two founders hopefully multiple founders how they knew each other and how they came up with this idea that they're going after versus and what problem they're tackling and so A, I have a standard set of questions I ask so that way I can spend my time not thinking of questions to ask, but just listening and just learning.”
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- 13 Jun 2022
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…That's amazing. I don't know how you keep your brain capacity focused on so many things. Meeting with that many founders, even outside of the time is a lot of mental load. i enjoy it i think the thing is i enjoy it because i have been a founder myself not a very successful one so one of the things i love hearing i always start to tell me your founding story and every founder likes to tell the financing and that's where i listen closely for authenticity to understand how they met each other the two founders hopefully multiple founders how they knew each other and how they came up with this idea that they're going after versus and what problem they're tackling and so A, I have a standard set of questions I ask so that way I can spend my time not thinking of questions to ask, but just listening and just learning. And then I also have a good ability to forget instantly. I take notes and then I just forget and go on to the next meeting. So compartmentalizing well. Have you thought about publishing these questions that you ask or do you think that would hurt these chats?…
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