thread of advice I wish my 23-year old self had, on interacting with the c-suite. hard-earned at public co and startup doing board decks/meetings, strategic planning, sTrAteGy, M&A and chief of staff stuff
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execs are usually so removed from the details that you need to start at high abstraction. they may test you by drilling into details, but the test is more about napkin math, logical construction and comparison to priors. nobody is going to run a model to fact check
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Under appreciated thing here. Give them useful metaphors and 80% correct models that they can remember and use to advocate later on. It doesn’t matter if they’re missing the 2% it took you weeks to learn, as long as they feel like they understand the factors that drive IO
