TLDR Founders · STRATEGIES & TACTICS

UPLEVEL OR REPLACE? A CEO'S DILEMMA AT SERIES B

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Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

ZoomInfo was built from $0 to IPO, and its founder has a nuanced take on the "when do you upgrade your early team" question. His answer: every exec was a first-timer once, and external hires aren't automatically better. The real question is whether someone can do what the business needs for the next 12-24 months, not whether they've done it before.