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One thing I will say is: I wish I had had some EM/hiring experience before starting a startup.

My technical skills served me very well in year 1/2, but once we started hiring enough people I could definitely feel my lack of experience.

Maybe big tech EM experience wouldn't have helped me a lot, the context is definitely very different, but at least it would have been some sort of baseline to draw from.



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