Kevin Rose says key for startups is to 'edit your team'

Digg founder and current Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose, at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco today.

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SAN FRANCISCO--As a serial entrepreneur, Digg founder Kevin Rose no doubt had a lot of people telling him how to grow his businesses. But the best advice he ever got was to get rid of employees that don't fit.

At TechCrunch Disrupt today, Rose -- who also co-founded Revision3, Pownce, and Milk, and who is now an investment partner at Google Ventures -- told interviewer Colleen Taylor that Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey gave him the best business suggestion he ever got: "edit your team."

Dorsey told him, Rose said, "'You're just going to make bad hires [and] you just have to trust your gut [and you] have to constantly be editing and pruning your team."

This may sound counter-intuitive at a time when most tech companies are struggling to find good people, but it does acknowledge the reality that not every new hire is going to mesh with their new team. And companies can suffer by trying to make such situations work since poorly situated employees suck up management resources and cause di... [Read more]



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