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Today’s guest is Logan Allin, Founder and Managing Partner at Fin Venture Capital (Fin VC). Before becoming a full-time investor, he patiently dedicated his career as an operator in financial services, and, advising numerous fintech companies such as SoFi and Addepar, to name a few. He understands the enterprise landscape of the fintech industry, opportunities, and just as importantly, how to align and move key stakeholders.
Open any company website and read what they value— it could be in their ‘About Us’ page or on their ‘Job Descriptions’ pages. Likely, you will find single words or catchy phrases that describe their culture, who they are, and how they operate. However, if it is not clear what specific behaviors your company values and expects, then people are left to their interpretations and personal biases of what behaviors are expected of them.
Today’s guest is Robert Fenton, Founder and CEO @Qualio, a company that is providing the tech-driven quality operating system for modern life sciences companies— no small undertaking! In this interview, Robert shares his journey as an immigrant founder and some of his stories just simply couldn’t have been scripted better!
In this post, we share six questions you can use, in-person, to determine talent fit for the role. Using these questions, you will be able to infer important aspects of their behavior without having worked with them or observed them working before. Instead of a long-winded questionnaire— you can do this within 15 mins!
Today’s guest is Adam Jackson, a serial founder and currently the Founder & CEO at BrainTrust. Braintrust is the first user-controlled talent network that connects organizations with highly skilled tech talent. Adam and the Braintrust team are leveraging blockchain to cultivate a better incentives-aligned marketplace for skilled tech talent to thrive, and for large organizations to source the specialized talent they need.
Performance is a team sport. To maximize joy in what you do, you want to focus more on the activities you enjoy, the activities that you have a natural talent for, and minimize activities you aren't so good at. As such, you need to delegate activities to others— elicit their help! This doesn't mean you won't have to complete activities you don’t enjoy— there are activities that are natural necessities in life and work. The point is to focus most of your efforts and attention to the areas of your highest value.
