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Ask HN: Institutional investor adds talent acq to upcoming call. What do you do?
I have an upcoming call with a potential investor in the financial space. They added someone from talent acquisition to the phone call. We're not interested in becoming employees, we are raising funding. What do we do?
- tucaz 6y agoTalk to them and see what they want? Make a decision about what to do after you know what you have to decide about? What kind of answers are you expecting?
- b20000 6y agoMy main concern is making sure the conversation doesn't become one around hiring us instead of being about our plans as a startup, and our funding ask.
- codegeek 6y agoDon't assume anything. Go on the call and hear them out. If they are looking to acqui-hire, say No. But don't assume anything.
- Jugurtha 6y agoAs the famous Glengarry Glen Ross quote goes: "You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is". I'd say take the call. If they sollicited you, listen to their offer. If you sollicited them, do your pitch. Acknowledge and clarify that you understand their position; communicate yours. Courtesy doesn't hurt. I'd focus your pitch on what you need and want. You may think you don't want something but quite often it's just because you don't know much, and vice versa. That is unless you know exactly what you want and what you don't, but that certitude is too common to mean anything except for those who toute it as one of the important traits of great founders in a continual pattern recognition that glosses over serveral biases (survivor, selection, salience).