Originally published on YouTube 1 year ago.

In this Turing Distinguished Leader Series session, we conversed with Ashu Garg, General Partner at Foundation Capital. Ashu is an early investor in several unicorns, including Turing.

Here's how the conversation unfolded:

2:30 - Ashu Garg’s Introduction

3:15 - Secret behind building unicorns

5:06 - Identifying a unicorn sized problem

8:50 - Transitioning from a startup to a unicorn

12:23 - How to build a team of executives

16:45 - How to focus on people’s strengths

20:16 - Common pitfalls and speedbumps at the unicorn stage

25:17 - Planning processes at the unicorn stage

31:22 - When to start focusing on the planning process

32:48 - Board meetings at the unicorn stage

37:05 - Transitioning from unicorn to decacorn

44:27 - Adding board members at the uni-deca transitioning stage

47:43 - Frequency of board meetings at the unicorn stage

49:38 - Adding investment partners at the unicorn stage

51:55 - Resources and channels to connect with Ashu Garg at Foundation Capital

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Turing.com enables companies to hire senior, pre-vetted remote software developers. 200+ companies, including those backed by Google Ventures, Andreessen, Founders Fund, Kleiner, and Bloomberg, have hired Turing developers. Companies can, with Turing, hire top 1% remote engineers who have strong technical and communication skills and work in their time zone.

1) Hire from over 1M remote software developers across 150+ countries.

2) Hire remote software developers across 100+ skill-sets, including React, Node, Python, Angular, Swift, React Native, Android, Java, Rails, Golang, PHP, Vue, DevOps, and Machine Learning.

3) Turing remote developers are vetted over 5 hours of tests and interviews that rival Silicon Valley’s vetting standards. Turing reviews candidates’ data structures, algorithms, systems design, project planning abilities, and knowledge of specific software specializations/frameworks.

4) If you decide to stop within two weeks, you pay nothing with a risk-free trial.

Turing is backed by well-known investors like WestBridge Capital, Foundation Capital, Facebook’s first CTO (Adam D’Angelo), executives from Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, and Founders Fund (investors in Facebook, Tesla, Asana, etc), among others. The company is led by serial AI entrepreneurs Jonathan Siddharth and Vijay Krishnan, whose last AI firm leveraged remote talent and was successfully acquired.

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