Chief of Staff

Always been a joke
4-5 yrs? I see rando CoS intern openings and people with ~2yrs with CoS title. You are not a chief of staff you are a glorified executive assistant

Quite true CoS has become extremely random. It's obv a generalist role, but it's become something that isn't really transferrable, changes completely from one startup to the other

One CoS would just be handling investor requests, while the other would purely be managing schedules and project tracking for the CEO. People need to manage this better.

Chief of staff is the literal equivalent of a Chanakya.. but in Indian startups its become as good as "highly paid intern" who can do whatever the CEO needs

Someone 2 years my junior from school (aged 25) is “Chief of Staff” at a startup. All he’s done recently is make LinkedIn posts about hiring “x” position - something the HR executive from my company does daily. I also see him comment “glad to have you onboard” when someone joins I guess.

All in all, I don’t really believe he has any qualifications to be “chief” of anything YET. But yeah, the position is a joke at the moment.

bhai ye CoS hamesha se joke hi tha India me "Bada babu " ka inflated name hai CoS

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