4. Some founders went founder-led for longer, mostly because growth was going so well, including @Linear
, at a couple million in ARR:
@lennysan
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Founder-Led Growth Strategy at Linear and Other Startups
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Hiring First Salesperson: Wait Until $250-500k ARR
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3. Try hard to wait until $250-500k ARR before hiring your first full-time salesperson Data points:
→ @theziphq
: $200k ARR (4th employee)
→ @_hex_tech
: $250k ARR (8th employee)
→ @Amplitude_HQ
: ~$300k ARR (2nd employee):
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AI Startups ARR Milestones: TrustVanta, Census, Databricks, Gusto
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→ @TrustVanta
: $500k ARR (9th employee)
→ @Census
: “mid-six figures” (4th employee)
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Coda Team Launches Major Updates and New Features
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Congrats on the big updates and launch Shishir and the whole Coda team
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AI Data Scientist Named Data: Simple Naming Approach
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It's an AI Data Scientist, and to keep it simple I just called it "Data"
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Figma GTM Strategy: Growth Leaders as Marketers
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There were a few GTM/growth people who were essentially marketers. e.g. Figma.
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Which AI Role Gets Hired First: Hiring Trends Analysis
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A few more charts: 1. Breakdown of which role was hired first
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Building Your Early Team: Hiring Strategy for B2B Startups
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In part 6 of my 7-part series on how to kickstart and scale a B2B business, I dug into hiring your early team 1. Who should I hire?
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Measuring Career Growth Through Challenge Moments
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Love love love this way of thinking about career growth, from @lshackleton
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 2 octobre 2023
tl;dr measure your career and personal growth by how many "oh shit" moments you've had in the past 6-12 months pic.twitter.com/1Vg2ZYxbkLLove love love this way of thinking about career growth, from @lshackleton tl;dr measure your career and personal growth by how many "oh shit" moments you've had in the past 6-12 months
