Old People
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Old People
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#2Fantastic!
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#3> You don’t know the job as well as they do – in fact, you are hiring them precisely because you don’t know how to do the job. So how do you hold them accountable for doing a good job?
Kind of like using a high-level language and/or a framework: Are you using it because you don't know how to do what the software does, or are you using it to automate a task you could do 'by hand' if you had an infinite number of hours in a day? Only in the second case are you qualified to tell if the tool you just brought in is doing a good job.
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#4Worked at a startup with about 20 or so people. The cofounders decided to bring on a "COO" to, in essence, whip the company into shape for scaling. This person was considerably older than a lot of the staff (but I'm not sure age was relevant).
The person was a terrible cultural fit and was the reason three of our best employees left, dynamically changing the structure of the co. I think this person made some decent operational changes, but the culture value that was lost didn't make up for it.
(don't really have much followup to where they're at now, left a while back and haven't heard much from former coworkers).
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#5Worked at a startup with about 20 or so people. The cofounders decided to bring on a "COO" to, in essence, whip the company into shape for scaling. This person was considerably older than a lot of the staff (but I'm not sure age was relevant). The person was a terrible cultural fit and was the reason three of our best employees left, dynamically changing the structure of the co. I think this person made some decent o…
Ya early in startups culture & skill are soo important.
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#6This was published over at PandoDaily the other day with the title: "Hiring old people: The dangerous but necessary steroids of the startup world." http://pandodaily.com/2012/12/04/hiring-old-people-the-dange... .. got me thinking back to the rather hectic HN thread the other day :-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4838215
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#8Old guy here.
Musing about the reaction if I reblogged this post with "younguns".
Don't get me wrong, the points are valid. But I'd bet an equivalent post about what could happen to a startup when a young new hire comes in would get uber-flamed. Just sayin'.
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#9Old guy here. Musing about the reaction if I reblogged this post with "younguns". Don't get me wrong, the points are valid. But I'd bet an equivalent post about what could happen to a startup when a young new hire comes in would get uber-flamed. Just sayin'.
I am old-ish. My read on it: We iz intimidated.
Left-handed compliment. So it didn't really bother me, and I am kind of quick to be offended and high handed about something like that.
Also just sayin'.
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#10 in fact, you are hiring them precisely because you don’t know how to do the job. http://www.magicdress.co.uk/