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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 Feb 1
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      A position I think should exist at medium-sized to large companies: the Intro Concierge. "IC, who is the best person internally to ask about credit risk in Southeast Asia?" "IC, need a warm intro to a a VC specializing in healthcare SaaS."

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Feb 1
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      "How would they actually do that?" Presumably by being extremely diligent and efficient at doing fundamentally the same primitives I do: guess who in the company would know, Slack/email them as to whether they know, and recurse until the right person is located.

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      This isn't just for the usual purposes of asking for introductions; it also helps people play find-the-expert. "Interesting project plan; what's biggest risk?" "Uncertainty re: X." "Did you ask an expert about X?" "But who would I talk to?" "The Intro Concierge, like always."

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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Feb 1
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          A lot of organizational design is "Ahh, what problems we could solve if we had an API that implemented the following interface; we'd consume that everywhere" and realizing that people can expose an API, too.

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Feb 1
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          Plus, from a corporate management perspective, wouldn't you *kill* to know who makes most use of this service and where the hotspots are internally for routing? Or even where the intermediate layers are?

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        1. Matt S (Sufficiently Advanced Insanity) Trout‏ @shadowcat_mst Feb 1
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          I play this role in open source communities a fair bit. "Not sure who to ask about X? Ask mst that." It's deeply satisfying and an amazingly effective way to keep your finger on the pulse and network yourself at the same time.

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        1. Saul Lieberman‏ @Saul_Lieberman Feb 1
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          Oooh... I like "Intro Concierge" (though a better title would capture the research aspect).

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        1. Andrei Popovici‏ @andreipopovici Feb 1
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          You'd have to pay the IC in gold coins #JohnWick

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        1. Jarret Raim‏ @jarretraim Feb 1
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          We did something like this @rackspace. who@ was a mailing list of tenured, connected Rackers that could give you a good steer in the right direction. Internal only though.

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