Short excerpt from a YouTube video (Jason M. Lemkin) discussing interview strategies for early hires and VPs of Sales/Product. Key practical tip: ask candidates what they'll do in their first two weeks; candidates who don't say they will meet customers are a red flag.
What other questions do you ask for either? Let's go through both. You said you have these questions that you ask for the early hires and then the VP of sales. What are some tips for people when they're interviewing these folks? It's interesting. VP of sales of VP of product. I look for the same answer. One of the Columbo style questions I.
Ask them and I mean, I mean.
This is so it's, it barely even counts as a question is what do you, what do you want to do your first 30 days? What do you want to do? Actually I usually ask what do you want to do your first two weeks? And in B2B if I don't hear from the VP of Sales or the VP of Product that I'm going to go meet customers, out, I'm out. There's too many VPs of product too Lenny that don't want to meet customers anymore either.
