If you’re doing background due diligence on a founder, investor, executive, etc etc, there are far less effective widely used tactics than going to a podcast search engine and listening to them talk for an hour or two.
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Easier to get signal on “Can this person usefully pitch X to e.g. a candidate?” by listening to them attempt to do that rather than by hoping a reference check remembers that particular facet of reality really clearly and doesn’t confuse it with “So did you like them?”
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Also think it’s likely to be far less distorted than e.g. asking them the same set of questions in a job interview. “We’re curious how you’d perform in our open, collaborative work environment, so I thought I’d test with hostile questioning by a bored person you won’t work with”
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“And maybe you’ll be well-poised and affable during that conversation so I will give your simulated teammate the explicit instruction to undermine you and or lie to you. To see what happens, you know. Might not hire based on your reaction, naturally.”
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