Natalie Ledbetter
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Oct 13, 2026
Hiring, Leadership, and the Reality of Startup Life with Natalie Ledbetter
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1:03Tom KeenanHOST
But before we get into that, do you want to just give us a bit of a helicopter view of your career, what you've done and what brought you to today?
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1:18Natalie LedbetterGUEST
I typically will just focus on the last 13, which is when I entered the New York startup ecosystem.
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1:26Natalie LedbetterGUEST
And I essentially have been a people operations leader three different times.
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1:32Natalie LedbetterGUEST
I've also been the first hire in each of those startups in my discipline, which is typically pretty rare to have a very senior person who wants to come in and own strategy, but also execute on the ground and build on the ground.
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1:47Natalie LedbetterGUEST
And so that is something that I really enjoy doing and one of the reasons why I really love early stage startups.
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6:18Tom KeenanHOST
What does that look like in a startup? Or what do you as a consultant have to think about when working with a startup? And what happens when this kind of gets misaligned?