2. ME
● Building the operating
system for Venture
Capital at Carta
● Lead the Product
Management and Design
team on Investor
Services
● Loves Luca Pacioli
ALSO ME
● Loves dogs, especially my
dog, Mowgli
● Spends too much time
watching home renovation
videos and shows
● Drinks a lot of tea
Graduated from
college
First job
Consultant -> IC PM
Second job
Product Manager
Third job
IC PM -> Director
Fourth job
Director -> VP
4. ME
● Building the operating
system for Venture
Capital at Carta
● Lead the Product
Management and Design
team on Investor
Services
● Loves Luca Pacioli
ALSO ME
● Loves dogs, especially my
dog, Mowgli
● Spends too much time
watching home renovation
videos and shows
● Drinks a lot of tea
Graduated from
college
First job
Consultant -> IC PM
Second job
Product Manager
Third job
IC PM -> Director
Fourth job
Director -> VP
5.
6. Internal mobility
● Good for business.
● Edge in the steep
competition for the best
talent.
● Advantage of asymmetric
information about the
candidate.
● Can keep tabs on people
with PM mindsets: systems
thinkers, structured
communicators, creative
problem solvers.
7. ME
● Building the operating
system for Venture
Capital at Carta
● Lead the Product
Management and Design
team on Investor
Services
● Loves Luca Pacioli
ALSO ME
● Loves dogs, especially my
dog, Mowgli
● Spends too much time
watching home renovation
videos and shows
● Drinks a lot of tea
Graduated from
college
First job
Consultant -> IC PM
Second job
Product Manager
Third job
IC PM -> Director
Fourth job
Director -> VP
8. Invest in problem solvers
Invest in:
● Progress not activity
● Teams doing a lot with a
little instead of a little of a
lot
● Internal problem resumes
(ConfirmHR)
9. ME
● Building the operating
system for Venture
Capital at Carta
● Lead the Product
Management and Design
team on Investor
Services
● Loves Luca Pacioli
ALSO ME
● Loves dogs, especially my
dog, Mowgli
● Spends too much time
watching home renovation
videos and shows
● Drinks a lot of tea
Graduated from
college
First job
Consultant -> IC PM
Second job
Product Manager
Third job
IC PM -> Director
Fourth job
Director -> VP
11. Job Description vs. Problem Description
Focuses on problem not
qualifications
Represents the team and
company in an authentic
way
Removes language that
has shown to filter out
URMs
Doesn’t give people a
sense of what they’d
actually be doing
Doesn’t give people a
sense of what it would be
like to work at Carta
URM candidates too
often filter themselves
out if they don't meet all
the criteria