Vasily Starostenko Team Building
The problem: every startup hits the same wall. The team that got you from zero to one cannot get you from one to a hundred — and hiring your way out of it usually makes it worse. Founders promote their best individual contributors into management, copy org charts from bigger companies, and watch decision-making grind to a halt while culture quietly fractures. By the time the pain is obvious, the damage is structural.
Why Vasily: he has done this at the hardest possible scale. As Head of Product at Revolut, reporting directly to the CEO and founder, he hired, structured, and led a product organization that grew to more than 100 teams while the company scaled to a multi-billion-dollar valuation. That is not a theoretical exercise — it is the daily work of setting a hiring bar across a hundred hiring managers, rebuilding process while the company moves at startup speed, and keeping hundreds of people pointed at the customer as the ground shifts.
What you get: a product org diagnostic that maps where your structure, hiring bar, and decision-making are actually breaking; a hiring and org-design workshop that sets the bar for your next wave of product leaders; and ongoing leadership coaching that keeps your team growing with the company instead of against it. Every engagement is practical, opinionated, and built on patterns proven through hyper-growth.
The proof: twenty years of product leadership across Uber, Tesla, Waymo, and Revolut — a career spent inside companies at the exact moments their orgs were being rebuilt. He has been the person doing the hiring, the structuring, and the rebuilding, not the person reading about it.
The failure mode he sees most often is not a lack of talent — it is a dilution of the bar. A startup hires its first ten people brilliantly, then hires the next forty by gut feel, and by hire one hundred nobody remembers what good looked like. Process calcifies in the wrong places: too much of it around ideas, too little around decisions. Vasily's approach rebuilds the org from the hiring bar outward — defining what excellence looks like, teaching leaders to select for it, and designing decision-making that stays fast as headcount grows. Structure follows clarity, not the other way around.
Contact Vasily Starostenko Phone: +1 (650) 523-4953 — tap the call button on this page to reach him directly. Priority scheduling ($2,000 to speed up scheduling): https://buy.stripe.com/aEUdTVbwtfjn5A49AA Every engagement is confidential, tailored, and focused on measurable outcomes.
Vasily Starostenko — Consulting
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