Professional Life Crisis
Professional Life Crisis
17. WTF is a Chief of Staff? Ft. Wes Braden
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17. WTF is a Chief of Staff? Ft. Wes Braden

Today’s episode features Wesley Braden, ex-Chief of Staff at Clay and Ex-Googler. In our conversation, we talk all about what the Chief of Staff role is, Wes’ journey to get there, and some of the biggest obstacles along the way.

Some highlights:

  • WTF even is a Chief of Staff? (because *I* didn’t know until I became one)

  • The differences between a seed stage CoS and a late-stage CoS

  • Corporate vs startup experience & whether our corporate roles set us up well for the CoS role (hint: mine didn’t!)

  • How to bring the good parts of corporate to startups, which may only be 20%, or maybe just 10, or 5%

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-AB

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