Sydney Thomas from Impressionist Capital explains why he never formalized a hiring template for venture partners. Instead he looks for people like Shruti and Jen who identify his blind spots and bring complementary strengths, especially COO experience and legal expertise.
Chapters
What are kind of like the frameworks that you went through in deciding to bring folks onto your team? I tried to put together some sort of templative, like expected agreement in my head before, and I just don't— I never got to a place where I was comfortable with what that template was. I remember actually I was like, I had it in my Asana tasks, I was like, must write out the expectations of a venture partner. Never existed. I never— that does not exist in anything that I own, you know. And it was largely because I actually wanted people and partners who actually, like, could see my blind spots and fill them. And so that was actually a huge thing that both Shruti and Jen bring to the table that I'm so excited about. Shruti's background in COO, like, ninja world is just ridiculously phenomenal. She knows how to read legalese.