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I’m curious why the OP didn’t take their manager’s role instead of hiring externally? Maybe a different post explains it?

• Terretta 4y ago
  Don’t know in the particular case, but it’s very common at a VC-fueled company for the VC to be pressuring execs to hire “seasoned management”. The hypothesis appears to be spend money to bring in people who know how enterprises work. Instead of people “just” managing or managing managers, get “leaders” who are “proven”at managing business functions or lines business through managers of managers. So, pay big bucks to people that have risen to that size management before. Of course this means “layering” the Wills of the world with LOB or functional managers who by virtue of having been at a big enterprise predating the unicorn thing, have no clue what the function needs to be (no ‘north star’). Next thing you know, thanks to this overweening managerialism, the unicorn-turned-Leviathan is hiring “transformation” executives. You know what’s next… the next unicorn still made of Wills, ready to eat Leviathan’s lunch.