“Hire for your company like it’s the most important company in the world.”
That’s what Russ Plantizer told me once. He is one of my first venture investors and was with Lazard Technology Partners at the time. It has always stuck with me.
He went on to say; “Find people that have the capacity to do the job, and two jobs adjacent in either direction and the commitment to persevere when things inevitably get hard.” At the time, I briefly thought this was just VC opining.
