VCs are always looking for ‘operators’ but I don’t know what that means. Is it a product manager, a high level IC, engineering manager, etc.? What are the characteristics of a good operator? TC: 400K
Eye for talent, financial acumen, ability to build operating models, delegation skills, stakeholder management/communication. “Gets shit done” These people can have a lot of different titles in corporations, and people with those same titles can be terrible operators. Highest rates of success would probably be Program Managers and Project Managers. The occasional Engineering Manager or financial manager may also have success.
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I always thought it was some douche vc term to make yourself sound like special forces but I guess “operating” a business is more logical
I mean, both are true lol
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I always took it to mean someone who can get shit done, an expert generalist, closest in your list would be a technical PM who knows finance, marketing, and business well enough to not suck, maybe has run a startup before But it's a real real self aggrandizing douchey term that was probably stolen from military special ops so boring ass Stanford grads could feel cool about themselves and their relatively cushy boring jobs.
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Hurr durrr I'm an operator I can totally help your company figure out how to make food delivery profitable. What's that? Cancer is still a thing? US manufacturing is in a slump? No worries we'll pay PhDs 400k/year so they spend their efforts on this clearly critical problem of how our 'disruptive' app can change the future of "transport" or some bullshit dw