Charlene Li (see: “Credit where credit is due”) and I talked at length about the benefits and
challenges of blogging. She told me there ARE
unintended consequences to blogging. What these
would be for Prolifiq she couldn’t tell me; but, she assured me they
would be there, and I was not to fear.
Well it has happened; and, I am quite happy by the
consequence. We are adding staff because of our expansion initiatives and have
been doing a lot of interviewing. This is where one of the
unintended consequences comes to light. Many, if not all, of the
interviewees spent time reading our blogs, and as a result have a pretty good sense
of our corporate culture. This has drawn several to us; and, I suspect, has
driven some away.
Our most recent hire, Jeff Pearson will take a position as
our head of operations. He starts October 1 He comes from a background of small companies
that have grown huge (three successive stints) and he wants to find the
“culture thing” again. He believes he found it with us. We are thrilled he
chose to join us as he will be charged with the
mass scaling we will need as our Life Sciences business takes off.
Jeff found us through our mutual networks which intersected;
he read the blog and came after us
immediately. We chose him out of over 300 resumes (top-tier candidates, all)
and what I find most amusing is that his was the
first resume in the door. Too bad I didn’t
know enough to stop looking at that point.
I wonder what other
consequences the cosmos has in store for us….
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