Designing Diverse Teams w/Kaitlin Smith | S5 E4
On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Kaitlyn Smith, Chief Strategy Officer of Bankless, about common mistakes web3 teams make in hiring, the business case for building diverse teams, human centered design, and much more. Bankless is a crypto media organization that’s trying to help the next billion people go bankless.
Kaitlyn is an ops queen who - prior to working in web3 - worked at BlackRock, Ernst & Young, and obtained her MBA from Georgetown. She has a wealth of experience in the hiring and team building space and brings a grounded and sophisticated perspective to the often disorganized and chaotic world of web3.
This episode wouldn’t be complete without a brief conversation about mountaineering - something both of us love to do. Kaitlyn shares some of her biggest adventures, misadventures, and learnings, which include learnings on why we need more diversity not just in web3 but in the mountaineering world as well.
Kaitlyn is equal parts analytical and empathetic, and her balanced approach to her work and her life, combined with her clear communication style, makes this an extremely digestible and actionable episode.
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⏳ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
3:48 Tips for hiring high performing teams
7:00 Why web3 is bad at hiring
10:46 Hiring is like dating
12:27 What all high performing teams have in common
15:07 Do people shape culture or does culture shape people?
16:49 How to maintain work-life balance while working remote
20:03 Why diversity is important in hiring
21:42 Why diversity matters
25:18 Tips for hiring a diverse team
30:39 What is design thinking?
33:03 Areas of web3 media worth experimenting with
34:44 Do we need more crypto podcasts?
35:15 Bear market vs bull market content strategy
37:24 What is a Chief Strategy Officer?
38:35 What Kaitlyn’s excited to accomplish as CSO
40:32 Kaitlyn’s favorite mountain adventures
47:01 Explain your tweet
49:15 Follow Kaitlyn and Bankless

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