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Maria Angelidou

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402 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Then you go into home take assignment, which we call case study. Say that you passed your functional loop. A case study is typically a set of problems that you would have to solve and be working on if you joined the company.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Yeah. If you check on that, then you get into the last phase, which is looking at your leadership and drive. And there's a buy raiser interview there, which looks at your values and how if there's a fit with the values of the company. So and after that, we do a debrief and we make a decision. So I'll tell you, I'll tell you.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Yeah. If you check on that, then you get into the last phase, which is looking at your leadership and drive. And there's a buy raiser interview there, which looks at your values and how if there's a fit with the values of the company. So and after that, we do a debrief and we make a decision. So I'll tell you, I'll tell you.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Yeah. If you check on that, then you get into the last phase, which is looking at your leadership and drive. And there's a buy raiser interview there, which looks at your values and how if there's a fit with the values of the company. So and after that, we do a debrief and we make a decision. So I'll tell you, I'll tell you.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

I mean, you can get through all of that within a few days. It depends on how you design your, like, if you want to move fast. So I'll tell you on the case study, I wasn't actually a fan of that. Personio had that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

I mean, you can get through all of that within a few days. It depends on how you design your, like, if you want to move fast. So I'll tell you on the case study, I wasn't actually a fan of that. Personio had that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

I mean, you can get through all of that within a few days. It depends on how you design your, like, if you want to move fast. So I'll tell you on the case study, I wasn't actually a fan of that. Personio had that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

I just never, I never used it in the past. And I thought, you know, as you just said, like, I mean, who's going to put all of this time? And, you know, so Personio actually had, this is the company I work at now, had case studies part of their process. When I was going through the process, I was talking with Lujano, the CEO, they also asked me to do a case study.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

I just never, I never used it in the past. And I thought, you know, as you just said, like, I mean, who's going to put all of this time? And, you know, so Personio actually had, this is the company I work at now, had case studies part of their process. When I was going through the process, I was talking with Lujano, the CEO, they also asked me to do a case study.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

I just never, I never used it in the past. And I thought, you know, as you just said, like, I mean, who's going to put all of this time? And, you know, so Personio actually had, this is the company I work at now, had case studies part of their process. When I was going through the process, I was talking with Lujano, the CEO, they also asked me to do a case study.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

So they gave me a case study, and when I looked at that, like you just said, I was like, are you kidding me? There's no way I can find time to do this. It was like pages and pages. I don't do that in my process. I'll come to that. It was like 30 pages or something. And so I almost withdrew from that process.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

So they gave me a case study, and when I looked at that, like you just said, I was like, are you kidding me? There's no way I can find time to do this. It was like pages and pages. I don't do that in my process. I'll come to that. It was like 30 pages or something. And so I almost withdrew from that process.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

So they gave me a case study, and when I looked at that, like you just said, I was like, are you kidding me? There's no way I can find time to do this. It was like pages and pages. I don't do that in my process. I'll come to that. It was like 30 pages or something. And so I almost withdrew from that process.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

And it just so happened that as I was looking into that case study, it was describing all of the problems that I would have to tackle if I started the company. And it really piqued my interest. I'm a sucker for good challenge, learning new things, and that actually played in their favor. with me because I started to look into that and it drew me in.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

And it just so happened that as I was looking into that case study, it was describing all of the problems that I would have to tackle if I started the company. And it really piqued my interest. I'm a sucker for good challenge, learning new things, and that actually played in their favor. with me because I started to look into that and it drew me in.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

And it just so happened that as I was looking into that case study, it was describing all of the problems that I would have to tackle if I started the company. And it really piqued my interest. I'm a sucker for good challenge, learning new things, and that actually played in their favor. with me because I started to look into that and it drew me in.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Then I felt invested and I was looking forward to rolling up my sleeves and just getting into it and tackling all those challenges. When I started at the company, I had to redesign the entire hiring process to make it more rigorous.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Then I felt invested and I was looking forward to rolling up my sleeves and just getting into it and tackling all those challenges. When I started at the company, I had to redesign the entire hiring process to make it more rigorous.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

Then I felt invested and I was looking forward to rolling up my sleeves and just getting into it and tackling all those challenges. When I started at the company, I had to redesign the entire hiring process to make it more rigorous.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

I mean, it's important to hire the right people, just a full stop. And I ended up keeping it because it was something like from the DNA of Personio and actually it made my experience pretty unique. So I kept it, but the way that I changed it is it's very concise and it shouldn't take more than like an hour of someone's time.