Great Team PartnersYour team is the strategy.
Great teams are lean, high-performing, and aligned with business outcomes.
The thesisWhen payroll is your biggest expense, your team is your greatest investment.
We help founders build teams where the whole far exceeds the sum of its parts.
the frameworkExpanding the triangle
A company expands in three directions at once. When any one corner outpaces the others, the whole shape skews.
Leadership. The altitude the company rises to.
Team. The people doing the work.
Processes. Scaffolding that holds the structure.
when it skewsThree shapes that show up when one corner outpaces the others.
failure mode 01Top-heavy
Senior leadership hired before there is an organization to support them.
failure mode 02Wide and flat
Headcount grows faster than process or leadership can keep up.
failure mode 03Heavy on process
So much scaffolding that nothing moves through it.
Isabel Haque (Partner) & Bryce Rattner Keithley (Founding Partner)
the problemMost founders learn this lesson too late:
what happensYour early success meant sudden scale. Hiring should ease the burden, but hiring is hard. People problems can be painful and expensive — and often precede the need for People executives.
what we offerA strong people strategy aligns company priorities with people’s motivations so everyone wins — employees are coordinated, and enabled for success, and the business achieves its goals.
What our clients say:
“It just works.”
GTP is able to plug in directly with hiring managers at all levels, and different domains, even amidst shifts in strategy or changes in leadership — they figure out how to get alignment and signal to drive hires (and in some cases a lot of hires fast).
Avlok Kohli CEO, AngelList
“Ahead of our Series A, we hired GTP to help us find and recruit the best people for VP Sales and other early positions in Product, Engineering, and Design. They bring professionalism to our hiring process and are helping the team reach its full potential through culture initiatives and proactive HR.”
Mike Faloon COO, Ready
“GTP provided critical, high-quality, tactical recruiting mentorship and counsel to FormSwift. They helped interview key hires and provided mentorship about how to properly set up and scale our recruiting function. I'd highly recommend GTP for any recruiting or coaching role.”
Vik Tantry CEO, FormSwift
“Any company that has any employees should hire GTP.”
As a startup, you go from producing 100% of the work to 1% of the work very quickly as you scale your team. That means that your team needs to be doing the work you want them to be doing at a performance level that has high ROI on the investment you make on each of them. That is what GTP has helped me with — that translation layer between business vision / strategy and day-to-day execution by my team.
Sophie Z. Novati CEO & Co-founder, Formation