Learnings of a CEO: Matt Schulman, Pave, on Hiring

Re:Learnings of a CEO: Matt Schulman, Pave, on Hiring by neilv on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @12:56PM (#33333173)

> There are two types of executives you can hire – either a high slope (an up-and-comer) or a high Y intercept (a veteran in the industry). The veteran has been around for a while and knows what they’re doing. The up-and-comer is riskier, but this person is going to have more of an appetite to learn, more of a bias to take action, and a do-whatever-it-takes mentality. There is a time and place for both types of hires, but as a 35-person startup, almost always go for the slope, not the high Y intercept.

There are two types of HR manager you can hire -- either one that would advise not putting that in writing and publicizing it, or one that would advise not betting the company on theories pulled out of who-knows-where.

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Re:Learnings of a CEO: Matt Schulman, Pave, on Hiring by hellolemon on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @01:23PM (#33333521)

Look at his LinkedIn profile and you will quickly see how unqualified he is for the CEO role. He is the slope as he puts it. And no high Y would work for him.

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Re:Learnings of a CEO: Matt Schulman, Pave, on Hiring by tmpz22 on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @01:10PM (#33333377)

There are two types of blog poster - either they categorize people into two simple groups or they talk out of there mouth versus a different orifice.

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Re:Learnings of a CEO: Matt Schulman, Pave, on Hiring by notac on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @12:59PM (#33333221)

Tell me you're ageist without telling me you're ageist.

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Re:Learnings of a CEO: Matt Schulman, Pave, on Hiring by georgeburdell on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @02:30PM (#33334408)

It’s not pulled out of nowhere; his mental framework comes out of the management consulting playbook where you divide up the subject into groups A and B (usually only two groups) and try to glean superficial insights about one or the other for your customers.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, according to LinkedIn, Matt Schulman has a degree from Wharton. He is the archetypal tech bro wearing the trappings of nerddom. 15 years ago he’d have been spewing something analogous from a stone-clad building on Wall St

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Re:Learnings of a CEO: Matt Schulman, Pave, on Hiring by xapata on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @02:35PM (#33334483)

I'd have thought George P. Burdell would have more Hacker News karma. We should do something about that.

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Re:Learnings of a CEO: Matt Schulman, Pave, on Hiring by JamesianP on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @02:42PM (#33334569)

It's easy to make this policy objective. Give them a test of ethical principles. Hire the person who fails it...

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Re:Learnings of a CEO: Matt Schulman, Pave, on Hiring by LewisJEllis on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @06:43PM (#33337172)

The idea of slope vs y-intercept as applied to people/hiring is not some random unknown made-up theory; it's quite commonly discussed/repeated among founders, VCs, etc. I think it may've originated with John Ousterhout.

https://twitter.com/search?q=slope%20y-intercept

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