Varun Srinivasan
@v
Taking a page from @dwr.eth ‘s book I’m doing a Sunday AMA Anything goes — Farcaster, music, sci-fi, programming, @dwr.eth’s chick fila problem
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jacob
@jacob
biggest lessons from Coinbase that you are actively 1. applying 2. avoiding and what’s a new lesson you’ve learned so far at Farcaster
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Varun Srinivasan
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Applying: - Be unwavering in vision - Work as hard as you are able to - Build a company that founders want to work at - Be explicit about your cultural values
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Varun Srinivasan
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Avoiding/Doing Differently: - Growing very slowly and only hiring engineers (for now) - Not over rotating on good communicators - Not hiring under staff level for the early team
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Varun Srinivasan
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New lesson — having one founder stay deeply technical and working across all codebases is very high leverage when working on hard technical problems, especially as the engineering team grows
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Aaina
@aaina
what does not hiring under staff level for the early team mean? was also curious how you think about priorities for the first non-engineer hires
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
> Not over rotating on good communicators Curious about this
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