From exec roles to board seats — Anne Raimondi’s leadership lessons for the startup C-Suite

Today’s episode is with Anne Raimondi, Chief Customer Officer at Guru, and independent board member at Asana, Gusto and Patreon. Previously, she was part of the founding team at Blue Nile, spent five years in product marketing at eBay, and led marketing as an early employee at SurveyMonkey, before pivoting to operations as an SVP at Zendesk.  In today’s conversation, Anne pulls on threads from across her impressive career as a founder, operator, executive and board member to deliver spot-on advice for folks with an eye for the C-suite. From what enables the best executives to scale up, to how she’s approached her own 30, 60, 90-day plans as a brand-new hire — she doles out plenty of prescriptions for getting this critical transition right and avoiding common traps. She also opens up her playbook for approaching executive recruiting, interviewing and hiring, and when to mine executive talent internally rather than defaulting to external hires. Finally, she opens up about her board work, sharing the essential ingredients for productive, impactful boards across every growth stage.  Today’s conversation is a must-listen for executives, founders and board members looking to level up their leadership frameworks — and for folks who someday hope to step into these same shoes. You can follow Anne on Twitter at @anneraimondi and you can learn more about her approach to diagnosing and repairing team trust on First Round Review: https://firstround.com/review/use-this-equation-to-determine-diagnose-and-repair-trust/ You can email us questions directly at [email protected] or follow us on Twitter @twitter.com/firstround and @twitter.com/brettberson