Growing into director plus roles

Adjusting to Director+ roles

• Jade has written up his learnings on the topic in advice for new directors

Learning more about the business

• Someone recommended this newsletter to learn SaaS business context
• Financial modeling for startups, an introduction
• Rule of 40
• Talk with finance people and review costs, models, etc.
• Talk with sales engineers.
• Talk with people in the growth function. Understand the numbers they track and care about.
• Someone I trust: I had a session on this at a CPO accelerator from Giff Constable and he’s now teaching a maven class on this. I found Giff to be a great teacher.
• You can get an MBA, or do an equivalent amount of self-study, although that’s high effort.