The Pmarca Guide to Startups, Part 8: Hiring, managing, promoting, and firing executives(blog.pmarca.com)
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The Pmarca Guide to Startups, Part 8: Hiring, managing, promoting, and firing executives
http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/08/the-pmarca-guid.html
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Weird how he does that PC thing of gratuitously using the feminine. That peaked in the early 90s and has mostly disappeared now. It rings especially false in this industry, where female CEOs are so rare that they're automatically famous on that account.
The CEO of Ning (Pmarca's startup) is female.
http://boardroombroads.blogspot.com/2007/07/eyes-on-you-gina...
http://boardroombroads.blogspot.com/2007/07/eyes-on-you-gina...
I wonder if that blog post evolved out of stuff he said to her.
Funny.... you use "he" and it's gender neutral. Use "she" and it is PC.
It accomplished its goal, which was to catch your attention. Even little subtleties have a purpose.
It is distresssing to see how many mistakes we made.
Luckily that was then.
Luckily that was then.
Would reading this article have stopped you from making those mistakes?
Probably not. At some point you have to learn to trust your own judgment rather than someone else's. For me at least, that took time.