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The title is not a meaningful gauge of a person's knowledge or experience. It wouldn't be unheard of for a VP at a company with 50 employees to have similar re
by blihp 7y ago
The title is not a meaningful gauge of a person's knowledge or experience. It wouldn't be unheard of for a VP at a company with 50 employees to have similar responsibilities as a manager at a company with 1000 employees. They could also be VP of Engineering/Customer Service/etc. which would typically not be expected to have much, if any, legal or finance knowledge.
- harryh 7y agoYa, I'm not saying I'm 100% confident in my assessment. Just saying that reading it feels pretty fishy. Just my opinion.
- xpWr7r1ZeX 7y agoYou are that VP in the article aren't you? IMO, both of you don't know too much about how startups work. Not bad, just reality that leads to unfortunate outcomes.
- krn 7y ago> They could also be VP of Engineering/Customer Service/etc. which would typically not be expected to have much, if any, legal or finance knowledge. That's in the article: > Four years ago, I landed a VP of engineering job at a red hot startup, for which I was granted options for 2% of the company. That person could have easily been a Senior Software Engineer at FAANG before becoming a VP of engineering at a startup. How much do Level 5 engineers at Google know about liquidation preferences if they have never worked at a startup before?