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Six rules of hiring for growth - by Elena Verna

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👋 Hey, Lenny here! Welcome to the monthly ✨ free edition ✨ of my weekly newsletter. If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: Picking a wedge Breaking into growth Community wisdom As Paul Graham teaches us, “Startup = growth. The only essential thing is growth. Everything else we associate with startups follows from growth.” Thus, your first growth hire is one of the most important hires you’ll make. To tackle your question, I’ve pulled in Elena Verna, one of the smartest growth people I’ve ever met (and who I’ve been trying to convince to write a guest post for nearly a year). Below, Elena generously shares her six hard-won lessons on growth hiring. Over the past 10+ years, Elena has helped hire and build growth teams at companies like Netlify, MongoDB, HP, and Krisp, and previously led growth at Miro, SurveyMonkey, and Malwarebytes. An early draft of this post has already become my go-to reference for helping founders figure out their growth hiring strategy, and

Six rules of hiring for growth How to hire and build your growth team—guest post by Elena Verna Elena Verna Nov 09, 2021 99 4 Share 👋 Hey, Lenny here! Welcome to the monthly ✨ free edition ✨ of my weekly newsletter. If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: Picking a wedge Breaking into growth Community wisdom Subscribe Q: When is the right time to hire my first full-time growth person? What should I look for when hiring for growth? As Paul Graham teaches us , “Startup = growth. The only essential thing is growth. Everything else we associate with startups follows from gr

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