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Hiring Executives for unfamiliar functions....

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Written by Matt Lanter (Lessons from Keith Rabois), chief of staff.

Imagine you’re the CEO of a high-growth startup and you’re looking to hire your first CFO. You’ve never directly worked with a CFO as your background is in product and engineering. How do you hire and later manage an executive in a function for which you have no experience? In this two-part piece, we’ll look at a few tactics for evaluating and managing executives based on feedback from Keith and CEOs at our portfolio companies. We’ll start with the hiring side in this post, followed by tactics for managing in the next post. Hiring It’s much easier to hire for a role when you understand…

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