Bland founder: the 'underperforming' SDR who turned out to be a golden snitch
whatsallthiss · x · 2026-09-09
In his article "The Golden Snitch," Bland's founder recounts hiring one of the company's first employees as an SDR. For months the hire did basically none of that job, and the founder was figuring out how to let him go.
He then discovered the employee had been quietly doing something else entirely, leading to his thesis on finding your "golden snitch" — the seemingly unproductive employee who is secretly delivering outsized value.
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