Friday, June 7, 2013

Of VC Internships & Running Teams

ON THE SUBWAY THIS MORNING, I was reflecting on my first 2 weeks of my internship at Canaan Partners.  It's been great so far, and I plan on sharing what I learn on Twitter under the hashtag #canaanintern (live link here).

The scattered barrage of work and autonomous structure got me thinking this morning about the explicit professional responsibilities and implied social contract between managers and subordinates*. More specifically I was thinking about how one should work when working by yourself versus collaborating with a team. My conclusion was analogous to running versus jogging.