Ask HN: Anyone been recruited by VC firms to work for their portfolio companies?

5 points by mehblahwhatevs 7y ago ↗ HN

Like the title says, I'm used to getting "recruiter spam" email, but I've never gotten one from a respected VC firm until today.

I am interested in a new position and wouldn't traditionally think of going through a VC firm.

Anyone have experience with this and who can tell me a bit about it?

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misframer 7y ago ↗

I haven’t been recruited that way but I have been contacted this way. I don’t have any experience with this process besides that.

Why wouldn’t you go through a VC firm? I think it seems fine, but then again I’ve never been through the entire process.

rajacombinator 7y ago ↗

I wouldn’t read too much into it unless you have a personal connection with a partner or whoever contacted you at the VC firm. A lot of the larger firms run in house recruiting teams to help their portfolio companies. So I’d just treat it like any other recruiter call unless I had evidence otherwise.

bitshepherd 7y ago ↗

People like to network. Consider it a business card with words.