This VC's best advice for building a founding team: This season on Build Mode, we're diving into what it takes to build a world-class founding team. To kick off season two, Isabelle Johannessen is joined by Yuri Sagalov, managing director at General Catalyst and former founder, YC partner, and seed investor at Wayfinder Ventures. Sagalov has worked with hundreds of pre-seed and seed-stage companies and has seen firsthand the best (and worst) ways to hire in the early days. Read More |
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At a critical moment, Snap loses a top Specs exec: As Snap readies the public release of its long-awaited VR glasses, one of the key executives on the project has left the company. Read More |
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