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Academic CEOs, Junior v. Senior Engineers, and High Growth Mistakes on Boss Talk #8

2021/4/1
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This week on Boss Talk: Why aren't there more academic CEOs? Should early stage companies  hire junior or senior engineers? What are the common mistakes high growth companies make, especially when expanding into new markets? Plus: balancing pay equity with retainment, CEO legal risk and protection, and growing through acquisition. 

*Boss Talk is the Clubhouse show where a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi, the Founder/CEO of Databricks, discuss CEO stuff, leadership stuff, management stuff... boss stuff. Live every Tuesday 5-6pm on Clubhouse. *