When you're going for a board interview -- especially when it's your first board seat -- you're actually not supposed to fade into it advocating for yourself and trying to convince people that you're a superb operator,as you might in a job interview. So what does the board interview involve then? Is all the common advice we hear approximately getting on boards (e.g., "don't talk approximately strategy") really true? TaskRabbit COO Stacy Brown-Philpot, and who was just announced to the HP Inc board (in Hewlett Packard's first major board shuffle since it split into two companies),answers these questions and shares other interesting nuggets from her experience getting her first board seat. MORE
Source: a16z.com