My point is that a VPE has to be good a managing/politics/delegation and also be technical. The cost of developing software has gone down a lot = smaller teams, more technical folks. Recruiters havent realized this. A company like WhatsApp has ~50 people and was valued at $ 19 billion.
At a personal level, I have been a big company manager with many years experience managing people. I have been introduced to startup founders. What I dont like is people (read recruiters) who have never shipped a product pretending to add value by injecting themselves into the process and decided who I should talk to.
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So, I have been working with exec recruiters in the Valley to land a VP/Director type job in SF startups. Seems like most of this recruitment happens thru' exec recruiters, who act as brokers between founders (mostly hackers with little management background) and candidates. Seems like in the name of "coaching" the founders, a lot of BS goes on.Exec recruiters focus on how many direct reports...