20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
Jaksokuvaus
Ian Siegel is the Founder and CEO @ ZipRecruiter, a leading online employment marketplace that uses AI-driven matching technology to actively connect millions of businesses and job seekers to their next great opportunity. Since co-founding the company in 2010, more than 1.8M employers have used ZipRecruiter to find their next great hire and over 500 million job applications have been submitted through the site. Prior to their IPO last year, Ian bootstrapped the company for many years to many millions in revenue before taking venture funding from IVP, Wellington Management and Basepoint Ventures to name a few. Before founding ZipRecruiter, Ian served in key leadership roles at CitySearch, Stamps.com, and Rent.com (an eBay company). In Today’s Episode with Ian Siegel You Will Learn: 1.) The Founding of Olo: How did Ian co-found ZipRecruiter from his kitchen with no venture funding and his 3 friends? Why did they decide to not raise venture funding in the early days? What was the catalyst at $50M in revenue for realising now was the right time to raise funding? 2.) The Art of Great Storytelling What does truly great storytelling mean to Ian? What are the components of a great story? Why do so many people today f*** up their product marketing and messaging? Why does Ian believe Version 1.0 is the only one that takes true courage? 3.) CEO's Do As Little As Possible Why does Ian believe his job as CEO is to do as little as possible? How does Ian determine between the things he, the CEO should do, vs those those he should delegate? Why does Ian believe the art of leadership and the art of parenting are the same? 4.) The Art of Hiring: How has Ian's approach to hiring changed over the years? What does Ian mean when he says, "I look for pointy people"? How does he detect them? What are the two qualities that make the best execs? What questions reveal them? 5.) Parenting and Marriage: Does Ian worry that with increasing family commitments, he loses an inch on work? Why does he believe he is in an advantage as a CEO to those that do not have children? What was the biggest argument he has had with his wife? How did it change his perspective? Item’s Mentioned In Today’s Episode with Ian Siegel Ian’s Favourite Book: Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet
Uusimmat jaksot
20VC: Turning a $15M Investment in Monday into $1.5BN in Cash | The Strategy Behind a 37x DPI $45M Fund | The Three Step Process to Selling Positions that has Netted Top Percentile Returns with Avi Eyal, Co-Founder @ Entrée Capital
20VC: LLMs Are Reaching a Stage of Diminishing Returns: What is the Next S Curve | The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | How AI Changes the Future of War & How Agents Will Reshape Society with Matt Clifford @ EF
20VC: Raising $126M Across 3 Rounds in Just 6 Months, Being the Youngest Founder of a Unicorn Company | But Everything Was Not as it Seemed: The Real Story of Vise: The Regrets, Mistakes and Mis-Hires with Vise's Samir Vasavada
20VC: Klaviyo's Andrew Bialecki on Going Public in an IPO Winter, Is Klaviyo Under-Priced in Public Markets and Why, Why Every VC Turned Klaviyo Down in the Early Days & How Shopify's Partnership Changed the Game
20VC: Why Foundation Model Performance is Not Diminishing But Models Are Commoditising, Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space and Models Will Enter the Chip Space & The Right Business Model for AI Software with David Luan, Co-Founder @ Adept
20Growth: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics and Strategies From the Revolut Product & Growth Playbook with Val Scholz, Former Head of Growth @ Revolut
20VC: Foundation Models are the Fastest Depreciating Asset in History, Lina Kahn is a Threat to American Capitalism, PE is Not Coming to Save the M&A Market & How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race with Michael Eisenberg
20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on Investing Lessons from Hits like Figma, Discord and Etsy to Missing Snapchat, Airbnb, Facebook & Spotify | Why Valuation is a Trap and Market Sizing, Signalling and Sector/Geo-Specific Funds are all Noise
20Product: Loom CPO Janie Lee on Three Core Skills that Make the Best PMs, How to Find, Pick and Train the Best PM Talent and Lessons from OpenDoor and Rippling on Product Breadth, Pricing and Talent Density
