Ask Anyone, Even the Former Uber CTO
“I cold LinkedIn'd the former CTO of Uber and said I don't really know who I should hire, do you have 10 minutes to give me advice?”
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it happens a lot. I remember I was trying a higher engineering team like we had an outsourced one and like I reached out to like the former CTO of Uber and I was like hey cold LinkedIn him and was just like I don't really know who I should hire. You know do you have like 10 minutes to hop on and just give me some advice like whom I'm looking for. And he's like you know I'm super busy. He got back to me and he's like you know
what let's hop on. Yeah it's one. I just called LinkedIn him and I just said we just we just raised we just raised our round from KP and I was like hey I like I need to grow the engine team. I think a lot of people think it's like it's something I heard while we were
fundraising it's like this person's not going to be able to grow the kind of team that she needs to build the product that she wants. Like people just don't have that technical background and so like I heard that a lot it was you know this these people coming in if you have a great CTO or if you have someone who's in the field.