Sam Gerstenzang

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Successful public investing doesn’t translate to successful startup investing. Intuitions and strategies that work well in the former simply don’t work in venture. As the private investment market liberalizes, and marketplaces like AngelList grow, there...

I’m really excited to share that I’ll be joining Dan Doctoroff and Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs, and moving back to the greatest city in the world. Sidewalk is focused on the future of cities and I’ll be part of a small team working on strategy and product...

Interviewing potential hires is the most important brand building exercise your company will go through and it’s conducted primarily by people whose primary day jobs are very different. This should scare the bejeezus out of you.
But it’s a completely solvable problem, and the solution comes when you recognize that hiring is sales: a repeatable process that involves convincing others with good information....