#7 Amy Volas - Stop trying to hack your way to success; Do the work.
April 20, 2021
Amy Volas is the CEO and Founder of Avenue Talent Partners, Cohost of Thursday Night Sales, and contributor for Sales Hacker and Modern Sales Pro where she shares her advice for StartUp Founders on recruiting talent from leaders to individual contributors. Amy brings 20 years of experience with over $100M of deals closed that provides insights on how to build out your Go To Market team. In this episode we dig into lessons as a first time founder, hiring and vetting A players, and her approach to writing. Tons of information and on to the show!
Show Notes
How being an enterprise rep prepares you as a CEO? [0:00]
Lessons from first-time CEO/Founder that Amy applies today. [3:56]
What Amy is seeing companies are doing wrong when it comes to recruiting. [10:04]
How should founders think about creating a team? [17:33]
How to vet the A players from 1000 applications? [21:03]
How does Amy approaching writing [27:08]
How does Amy make decisions on playing the long game, and who? [31:20]
Who are people Amy looks up to? [33:06]
Message for the listener [35:00]
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