Hello to my fellow digital native interwebz tweeple. I’d like to once again suggest that the era of top secret insider trading 19th century paper resume fluffing and pimping is long over; therefore, you are reading this open application even before the hiring board members and founding team leaders read it. In part because, today, every hiring manager is participating in an increasingly open and transparent team-building process wherein new norms need to be modeled both from the bottom up and the top down. Individually, none of us is perfect; however, each can pledge to continually do our best to fulfill our own part in building a more sustainable, adaptable, accessible world, moving forward. As always, I look forward to learning from the next steps of this ongoing, collectively co-constructed and implemented experiment called life. Subject: Revolutionary startup seeks C-level consumer Internet professional (palo alto) Date: 2009-01-27, 8:41AM PST Position and company highlights: –very competitive salary plus significant equity –work within a dynamic team within a unique, growing company Requirements: –Excellent grasp of Consumer Internet growth strategy, methodology and measurable prior experience. –Ability to design, implement and manage local and regional marketing plan Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster. Please, no phone calls about this job! Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests. Cover Letter Hello, Below, please find my resume, comprehensive digital identity, and more background check material than one could readily pay for: http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/ I am interested in working with the team to attain category leadership through continuous creative innovation in parallel with superior business execution. I believe it is important that we seize the current global market opportunity to model more sustainable, adaptive business norms, derived from already proven best practices. Therefore, I am interested in a progressive company structure; one that enthusiastically adopts a 20x multiple salary cap on all executives; obviously, including myself. Please see http://tr.im/sharedfate for the concept. We can work out the math together if we agree with this principle. I am also interested in a company whose equity structure improves upon the now defunct winner-take-all VC model, by proportionately rewarding each and every team member with an equity stake that parallels the prescribed salary caps, above. We may need to work together to create that new model from scratch. I understand legacy VC risk-reward philosophical justifications; however, we are in a new environment that requires more realistic thinking and recalibrated expectations for what constitutes reasonable returns on capital, moving forward. Within a day-to-day team context, I am consensus-driven and prefer a role wherein I can help to provide the team with the tools and resources required to achieve its objectives; however, wherever consensus conviction or clear direction are lacking, I am able to articulate creative, actionable strategic visions and pragmatic tactical product marketing road maps, as required. I will constantly challenge the team with original, sometimes orthogonal, and even unorthodox thinking. Upon a foundation of daily Specific Task Accomplishments, I will encourage cognitive diversity and open, transparent communication among all team members. I will advocate for a company culture derived from the final published issue of the Whole Earth Catalog, as recently highlighted in Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, namely: Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, @silverton Related articles by Zemanta
Steve Jobs on the Stupidity of Living in the Past and Uncertainty of the Future [Steve Jobs] (i.gizmodo.com) “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” (longnow.org) Remember the Whole Earth Catalog? (greatthinkers.suite101.com)
