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Tracy Van Grack

Tracy Van Grack

Chief Communications & Marketing Officer at Revolution, a DC-based venture capital firm led by AOL co-founder Steve Case

Jul 6, 2026

18:19
And then when that inflection point comes, when we can hire someone part-time or we can hire someone full-time, what that looks like.
18:27
Yeah.
18:27
So, you know, it's interesting.
18:29
I think the first time I generally have this conversation with a founder or a chief of staff, whoever is kind of leading the charge with how to maximize or take communications to the next level tends to be around a milestone.
18:43
So they have a funding announcement, they have a product launch, they have a big hire.
18:49
And typically, you will hire an outside resource before you have an internal hire.
18:54
And I'm going to leave it to Mike to talk about the pros and cons of that.
21:07
So just because we have a number of chiefs of staff listening and principals and fellow colleagues of chiefs of staff, can you just give us a little flavor of how that is set up and what your interactions are like with the chief of staff?

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