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“Chain of Thoughts” approach to generating personalized answer from LLM

Let’s take an example where our agent has to answer my question “How to hire a CTO?”

Below are the steps that you should code in the agent to achieve the desired results:

Step 1: Generate Step-by-Step Approach on How to Answer the Question “How to Hire a CTO?”

  1. Understand Your Company’s Needs
  2. Create a Detailed Job Description
  3. Identify Must-Have Skills and Experience
  4. Leverage Your Network
  5. Assess Technical Expertise
  6. Evaluate Leadership and Vision
  7. Check Cultural Fit
  8. Conduct Thorough Reference Checks
  9. Offer Competitive Compensation
  10. Start with a Trial or Project

Step 2: Add Personalized Traits/Experiences to Each Step

  1. I’ve scaled tech companies before, so I understand aligning technical leadership with business goals.
  2. As a builder-first founder, I value clear, actionable roles that drive innovation and adaptability.
  3. Resilience and navigating high-pressure environments are qualities I look for, drawing from my own experience scaling ventures.
  4. My network through YCombinator, Paytm, and industry connections is a powerful resource for finding top talent.
  5. With expertise in Pub/Sub and scalable tech, I’m skilled at evaluating deep technical knowledge.
  6. I prioritize leaders who inspire teams and align tech goals with business objectives, reflecting my own leadership journey.
  7. Fostering collaborative, mission-driven teams has been core to my success—cultural alignment is crucial.
  8. Having hired senior leaders, I’m adept at digging deep in reference checks to understand a candidate’s real impact.
  9. I’m familiar with structuring competitive equity packages that motivate and incentivize long-term commitment.
  10. My iterative, project-based approach allows for a practical assessment of fit and execution-style before full-time commitment.

Step 3: Generate All Refined Steps

  1. Understand Your Needs: Define technical bottlenecks and align CTO responsibilities with company milestones, focusing on candidates who have scaled businesses.
  2. Create a Detailed Job Description: Highlight the importance of innovation and adaptability, reflecting a hands-on, builder-first culture.
  3. Identify Must-Have Skills and Experience: Prioritize resilience and technical depth in building scalable solutions, crucial for thriving under pressure.
  4. Leverage Your Network: Utilize connections from YCombinator, Paytm, and the industry to find proven talent.
  5. Assess Technical Expertise: Use real-world challenges relevant to your tech landscape to evaluate deep technical knowledge.
  6. Evaluate Leadership and Vision: Look for leaders who inspire teams and align technical decisions with business goals, reflecting mission-driven values.
  7. Check Cultural Fit: Ensure alignment with company mission and team dynamics, emphasizing collaboration and shared passion.
  8. Conduct Thorough Reference Checks: Dive into specifics about leadership, adaptability, and impact during reference checks.
  9. Offer Competitive Compensation: Tailor a package that balances financial security with long-term incentives like equity.
  10. Start with a Trial or Project: Propose a short-term project to evaluate problem-solving, team alignment, and real-world execution.

Step 4: Generate the Response Using Refined Steps

How to Hire a CTO: My Approach

Hiring a CTO is a pivotal decision that can shape the trajectory of your company’s growth. Start by clearly understanding your technical bottlenecks and aligning the role with your business milestones—look for candidates who’ve successfully scaled businesses before. Craft a job description that highlights innovation and adaptability, reflecting the builder-first, hands-on culture that’s driven my own success.

It’s critical to identify must-have skills—resilience and expertise in building scalable systems are non-negotiable. Leverage your network; my connections through YCombinator, Paytm, and the tech industry have been invaluable for sourcing top talent. When it comes to assessing technical expertise, I favor real-world challenges that mirror your company’s technical landscape.

Evaluating leadership is equally important—seek out those who inspire teams and align technical goals with business objectives, resonating with mission-driven values. Cultural fit is a must; ensure candidates share the company’s vision and foster collaboration. Conduct thorough reference checks to get a true sense of their impact, digging into specifics around leadership and adaptability.

Finally, offer a competitive compensation package with a strong equity component, motivating long-term commitment. Consider starting with a trial project—this allows you to assess their problem-solving skills, team alignment, and real-world execution before making a full-time commitment.

By following these steps, you’ll not only find a technically skilled CTO but also someone who aligns with your vision and strengthens your company culture—setting you up for sustainable growth and innovation.

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Productivity startups

Content Productivity System

In today’s digital world, the need to produce high-quality content quickly and efficiently is becoming increasingly important. Businesses are looking for ways to stay competitive and increase their reach, and the best way to do this is through the use of content productivity systems.

Content productivity systems, such as Kwegg.com, are designed to help businesses create, manage, and publish content quickly and effectively to existing systems as wordpress or webflow. These systems use features such as AI-generated content, content collaboration, and content pipelines to help businesses create high-quality content in a shorter time frame. Content created using these systems is often used for marketing purposes, such as SEO, content marketing, and social media marketing.

Content productivity systems are a great way for businesses to stay competitive and increase their reach. They provide an efficient way to produce content and help businesses create content quickly and easily. By using content productivity system, businesses are able to produce high-quality content in shorter timeframes, which helps them stay competitive and reach more potential customers.

If you’re looking to stay competitive and increase your reach, then content productivity systems are the way to go. They provide a great way to produce content quickly and efficiently, allowing businesses to create high-quality

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clarity entrepreneurship motivation

Risk

Risk is the fear of losing something. Calculated risk is knowing the probability of losing and acting. Mitigating risk is decreasing the probability of losing. Taking risk is managing your fear of losing something.

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Goals-based management ( cutting through random shit )

Doing 10x efforts require a lot of patience and control to not do 1x or 0.5x things. And there has never been any clear playbook to do 10x. To do 10x, you have to only set goals you see as 10x and only do tasks that have medium or high impact to these 10x things. Framework to achieve such is very simple.

  1. Define your goals or KPIs you want to follow. Minimum you should do is next quarter goals or KPIs you are chasing
  2. Create tasks in each such goals and tag each task with impact and complexity. There can be 3 levels of impact – high, medium and low. There can be 3 level of complexities – easy, medium and hard
  3. High impact tasks are ones that directly contribute to the goal, medium impact is ones that contribute to something that directly contributes to these goals. Low impact tasks are ones where there is no clear visible impact that can be derived towards goals or impact is 5-6 hops away.
  4. Easy complexity are tasks that can be done in less than a day, medium are ones which takes 1-3 days, hard are ones which will take more than a week.
  5. Set timelines for each last task which will be achieved in the goal as a week before the end of the quarter.
  6. Now set timelines for each task so that its easy to understand what tasks need to be achieved every week.
  7. Do weekly planning by the above mode. Make sure you pick high impact, easy or medium tasks, and not low impact, hard tasks. If you have a high impact, hard tasks – divide them into medium or easy tasks.


    And finally, God Speed! Let me know if you need any help in framework prioritization. I have started using notion.so and have templatized project management by the above philosophies already there, happy to help. Feel free to reach out over para[dot]arora[at]gmail

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entrepreneurship How To's startups

Employee Feedbacks

There are a lot of actions happening in the company, by people. People are just faces and never judge people or try to classify people. People keep growing or changing. Just keep seeing their actions and make remarks about actions, never people. Eventually, accountabilities are defined by groups of actions or directions of actions which are needed and they are grouped in such a way that logically it makes sense that since they are interrelated, it’s easier to find in a single person or a single person can grow to doing those set of actions defining a role for accountability. If they are not able to do all such actions as a collective single individual, either they are in the wrong seat or organization has misjudged all such action capabilities can be one individual and need to remove or divide them into more grouped accountability or roles. Whatever you do or practice, remember always to give direct feedback about the actions of people (oh, and never miss giving feedback) and never to the character of people or generalizing a human.

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clarity tech

Presence: Future of collaboration

What does the future of collaboration look like? Surely not just restricted to just audio and video. Below is an image of what I collected defines presence for people I talked to this weekend:


So many unsolved problems still to solve each of these challenges in a seamless easy to way for consumers.

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entrepreneurship startups

Investor or business advisor values to look for in a seed raise

A successful pre-seed raise sets a lot of foundation for the eventual success of the organization. I will stay away from feedbacks of startups who conclude and are convinced that money is just money and just take it and quickly raise the round. That’s the worst thing one could do from the investor side or startup side (But when you have to do it, you do it especially at tough times knowing it might be on an ideal situation). Following are the conversation traits which should be happening in seed investors to make sense of the eventual success of the whole exercise:

Brutal facts confrontations

Are your investors talking about the brutal facts with you and how open you are discussing them? You can be a subject expert or have years of experience in your domain, but if your investor is not able to challenge you with brutal facts, you probably are going to have a hard time in your fundraising as well as have a hard time deriving great value from them. Some investors can be nice to you and really want to invest in your startup whatever you are doing, but look for traits that challenge you and force you to think, go back for homework and get back with a plan.
Do you get irritated by such confrontations or tend to ignore such investors, you probably should reconsider your decision of leading an organization and probably take some NLP course or something to help yourself before you dive into your journey.

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Startups that survive crashes

Startups that have survived and will survive aren’t the ones that are just created based on a market opportunity. They are created by passionate individuals who have envisioned the world after a few years and know a path to go there carrying their values and articulating mission to create the perfect vision they have created.

Their current app or idea or product is not the business but an accelerator to achieve the mission. We have an interesting time right now with markets hinting a crash and excited to see startups who will do the tests of the time.

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Socio-psychological factors for viral engagement

Human beings are instinctively social creatures. Social media apps, largely since Facebook, have categorically tapped into some basic elements of social interaction, and brought it into cyberspace; and it is for this reason that they’re some of the largest and most influential companies in the world – and hence also some of the most ubiquitous, publicised, and scrutinised.

Social media, in general, lays its groundwork on some basic socio-psychological phenomena, which we should certainly keep in mind if we wish to create the next big thing in this space;

Acceptance, and sense of belonging

For the most part, people are largely driven by their need to belong. Our need for social acceptance is very high, and it manifests in various ways, eg.

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