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Someone who has never been an IC or has no technical background makes me doubt their competence.
by mgh2 4y ago
Someone who has never been an IC or has no technical background makes me doubt their competence.
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- mikeryan 4y agoFor your CFO, CMO, COO, CHRO? Most early CXO hires are for the things that CEO's don't want to do but now have to be done. They want to hire someone who can take stuff completely off their plate and get it done. Identifying a poor CTO or CPO is pretty straightforward for technical founders. It's harder to identify whether your new CMO is shitty when they are crafting a marketing strategy from scratch.
- vsareto 4y agoSomeone else might think they're really good. That someone else might themselves be incompetent, but might also have people who think they're good. This gets less likely as the relationship graph grows, but I don't think people are good at judging competence without widely recognized and respected metrics. This is why getting friends and connections is a powerful strategy, because many fields are not interested in establishing fair gatekeeping. And for some very difficult roles, it's way easier to make friends than to be competent. This is made all the more difficult when competence is a quickly moving target. The positive referral is a rarely moving target though.