Before you walk in
Marcus
Talking about Someone to run the maintenance venture · Ventures · Cedar
Two minutes of reading, so you're not asking Marcus something we already know the answer to. You're not rating them today — you're finding out whether the things this need asks for have actually turned up.
What this need asks for
Would run a small local team without us hovering
Nobody has written anything down about this. It's yours to find out — ask for an example, not an opinion.
Calm when a crew is short and a client is angry
We've heard something already
“Said the thing he missed most was the morning crew meeting.”
Brendan wrote this down, coffee after the sale
Worth going one level deeper rather than asking it cold — ask Marcus for the time it actually happened.
Good with the people the company already has, not just the ones they'd bring
We've heard something already
“Built a maintenance company to forty staff”
a plain fact on their record
Worth going one level deeper rather than asking it cold — ask Marcus for the time it actually happened.
This is a comparison between what the need asks for and what people wrote down. It isn't a verdict on Marcus, and nothing here says how they did.
What Marcus told us they want
In his words: he'd love to run something again, but not alone this time.
When you come out
Write down what Marcus actually said, while you still have the words. Not what you concluded about them — the quote. Marcus can read it, and so can everyone deciding.