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Show you understand the stage and the bar
Recall the main items in "Show you understand the stage and the bar", then connect each one to the work.
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Show you understand the stage and the barOne line that proves you did the homework
- Name the stage honestly: a high-growth, well-funded company with a tiny, talent-dense team and an unusually high bar.
- Acknowledge what that costs you: you'll ship from week one with little hand-holding and you want that, not a place to be onboarded slowly into.
Say it like this
“I've been building GTM plumbing for years, but always bolted onto companies that didn't really believe in impact. Cursor is the automation thesis as a company - so doing GTM engineering here means the org actually wants me to remove toil with agents, not just tolerate it. I want to do for go-to-market what Cursor does for code and I'd rather ship into a tiny team that expects that from week one than be the one person pushing for it.”