“James excels at thinking about users to identify problems they need solved. His entrepreneurial spirit draws from personal experience, research, and friendly 1:1 conversations to get to the heart of a problem and come up with a vision of how to solve it. Once he has an idea in mind, he iterates to find something that works in practice (not always the first idea) as well as following through with strong execution in each step to bring his idea into reality. In working with James at Google, I've had the pleasure to work with him first-hand to help our clients use our products in unique, previously unthought-of ways. It ended up being just what they needed.”
James Kissell
San Francisco, California, United States
7K followers
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San Francisco, California, United States
7K followers
500+ connections
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James Kissell is a partner on the Go-to-Market Team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a…
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Absolutely thrilled to share how rewarding the past two days were with my incredible leadership team at Intuit! We delved deep into our work styles…
Absolutely thrilled to share how rewarding the past two days were with my incredible leadership team at Intuit! We delved deep into our work styles…
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B2B AI applications are more focused than ever on owning the workflow. Last year, we wrote about a transition to “Wave 2.” Wave 1 of B2B generative…
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Ringing the bell at the NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE to commemorate Pinterest’s five years as a public company shines a light on just how intentional we…
Ringing the bell at the NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE to commemorate Pinterest’s five years as a public company shines a light on just how intentional we…
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