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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 1 Nov 2019
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      Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Sahil Lavingia

      In many cases the people evaluating candidates and the person who will end up managing the new employee are not “qualified” for the job, or even their own job, under the way people usually model “qualification.”https://twitter.com/shl/status/1190368602639044608 …

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      Sahil LavingiaVerified account @shl
      Apply for the job. "But I'm not qualified for it." Neither is the person who's going to get the job. Apply!
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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 1 Nov 2019
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      There’s a deep, deep cultural myth here, that you work hard and please enough gatekeepers and *wham* you have now “earned” a job or a promotion or whatever. The only thing that matters is performance *subsequent to* convincing people to give you the shot.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 1 Nov 2019
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      See also: receiving investment, etc etc.

      9:28 PM - 1 Nov 2019
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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 1 Nov 2019
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          I think of raising investment as a sales exercise in which you say “I have amassed sufficient proof points to materially risk your decision here but if it were not a risky one it would be irrational for me to talk to you”, perhaps less explicitly, and I think jobs are similar.

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 1 Nov 2019
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          *materially derisk

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        4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 1 Nov 2019
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          Since that might be a little opaque: there is some percentage of Series A investments that fail and some much smaller percentage which become Google someday. If you are Google, *today*, it is irrational to speak to a Series A specializing firm for your capital needs.

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        5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 1 Nov 2019
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          Similarly, if you and Hogwarts are mutually convinced you’d absolutely crush it at Associate Potions Master with 100% confidence, you almost definitionally should be interviewing for a better job than that.

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