Saw a surge in posts for Founder’s office/Chief of Staff roles, many people are interested in. What’s with the new trend?
Because it sounds fancier than an executive assistant and gets you up and close with the top management and at most places pays equivalent to a tech salary without any technical skills.
@Elon_Musk It pays only for Tier 1, others are just glorified PA at peanuts
@Elon_Musk Very different role vs an EA
It's a pile of shit often undefined jack of all trades vague-all role that appears sexy because it starts with Chief. Especially if your YoE is < 5 yrs.
Never understood the attraction.
The high impact CoS I have seen are mostly ex-MBB with 15+ yrs experience who have true strategic direction altering leverage and an ear of the Top Boss.
That’s because most average folks don’t learn anything real of substance until 15 yoe. Several high quality to-be founders or x-founders who know a lot of stuff and can execute are a perfect for for the role.
These are pirates for a startup org, their job is to get shit done anyhow.
Most folks here who crave so deeply about work life balance and competence programming all day won’t get it.
When you want one person to do the job of 4, while paying for 1, seems like a win
Butthurt CoS retort coming in 3,2,1........
Just a fancy word for executive assistant so men can also do this job.
Hey folks! A lot of people have been asking me on LinkedIn about how to get into strategy / founders' office roles. I'm in that role but I had never 'tried-tried' for it so I'm also not aware of the landscape really.
Would love to hear ...
what's founders office or chief of staff role? what to these guys do. I generally see that they are from mbb club.
The role seems to be rewarding monetarily compared to other starting roles. Was this an existing role with a new name to attract more? Anybody from the Founder’s Office to say what your daily work looks like?
As the title suggests, I often wonder what is the natural progression for people who join startups in Chief of Staff or even Founder's office roles? Do they move to a specialized vertical internally? Or do they move to other startups in ...
