Every Startup Should Have This Job Listing

Li Jiang
Li Jiang
Sep 4, 2018 · 2 min read

I was introduced to a startup this morning by a very good friend and came across a job listing on their website.

Your role

This listing is not for a particular role; it’s to find a particular type: founders. We’re running an ambitious startup. That means handling constant chaos, venturing into uncharted territory, and building new things from scratch. Founders are the breed of people who know how to do this. As for what you’ll specially do? That will depend on whatever your skills are. Maybe you run a conference on nationless currencies. Maybe you are in charge of recruiting executives. Maybe you’re the one who networks to Finance Ministers of inflationary economies. Maybe you do all of these, because you’re a founder.

Every startup should have this job posting.

Because a startup is so dynamic and fluid that things are evolving all of the time. The highs and lows can come on the same day. A startup is like a newborn baby that is absorbing everything around it and being shaped insanely quickly (90% of a person’s brain is developed by age 5).

Probably 90% of a startups ultimate trajectory is developed by year 5 too. But a company needs the founder type to formulate that development and is willing to jump out of an airplane and build the parachute on the way down.

Li Jiang

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Li Jiang

Business Development @ Harmony.one

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