Startup recruiter reachouts are getting so boring

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Every startup recruiter email is like “we are growing like crazy”, “come revolutionize X”, “we raised a massive insane 400M from random names”. There are no differentiators.

I just find them all just very very boring. There might be some good companies there but the emails are such a bore to read. I came from a startup so may be I am jaded.

I don’t know what a good email looks like anymore. How do you select companies to talk to? What type of email gets you excited?

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  • Cognizant / Eng
    weedsmokr

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    Profitability
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  • Amazon
    hNyg33

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    hNyg33
    I look for founder rep/track record, path to commercialization (it may be a cool product but can I see a clear path to adoption and stickiness and paying customers?), and is it backed by Top a top 5 VC. That may be dumb but those are some of my flags for “is this worth my time”. 90% of things I get messaged about look and feel like gauranteed failures when you start peeling back the onion.
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    • Meta
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      OP
      You are talking about extensive due diligence. Is there anything about the email that makes you want to even peel back the onion? When I read emails saying “growing by 200x we got 300M including CEO of a JoeShmoe”, I just stop right there and don’t go past it.
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    • Amazon
      hNyg33

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      hNyg33
      I’m happy to spend 5-10 minuets of my time investigating new opportunities in the market. Nothing they can say in the email can tell you “this is the next 10B+ dollar company and will make you a millionaire in 4 years when they IPO!”.

      For me I enjoy hearing about what’s going on and who is interested in my services, but only maybe 1/10 I’ll reply to and talk to if I like what I found with a few minutes of due diligence. I hear you that most of these startup roles are trash. I too feel a little burned out from talking to inexperienced “chief of staff” titles who have no recruiting experience and don’t know how to hire or even sell well. It starts to feel like a waste of time but it’s the only way, there’s no magic bullet.
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