How Gusto Built Scalable Hiring Practices Rooted in Tradition
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How Gusto Built Scalable Hiring Practices Rooted in Tradition
• Don’t be afraid to zig when others zag. Canva made contrarian but conviction-driven decisions like staying private longer, avoiding outside leadership hires, and building a Swiss Army Knife product when conventional wisdom favored single-purpose tools. Staying true to your vision can be a key advantage.
• Canva employees have coaches, rather than
... See moreLenny's Newsletter • Inside Canva: Coaches Not Managers, Giving Away Your Legos, and Running Profitably | Cameron Adams (Co-Founder And…
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Done right, the company and the culture will evolve, but the center will always hold.
Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
"Well, I would have liked to have hired more top-notch folks throughout the company earlier." Because I'm still in that position now—I'm still struggling to fill positions with the types of people that we want to hire. It's not something that we do very efficiently here. It takes us a long time to fill a req. When we do fill a req, we hav
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
“The majority of companies don’t work in the way we do, which leads to fewer people with these kinds of skills. A conventional interview process, often modeled by large companies, doesn’t account for this. It’s challenging to assess in interviews if someone is truly a builder, has good taste and judgment, can take initiative, and approaches problem... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • Adding a work trial to your interview process
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Takeaways:
- Sales becomes the second most common hire , after engineering.
- A quarter of companies hired a product manager at this point.
- Recruiters become a surprisingly common hire. I did not expect that. This is particularly true across some of the most unique startups, like Linear, Figma, Ramp, and Coda. Here’s Jori Lallo, co-founder of Linear,
Lenny Rachitsky • Hiring your early team
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The most important question for me is, "How do I want to spend my days?" And the answer is: I want to spend my time thinking, creating, and ideating with a small group of people to build a beautiful, creative, values-aligned business. I am not interested in 14-hour work days, back-to-back meetings that deplete my energy, can’t catch a breath to-do ... See more
Sari Azout • Sari Azout on Building Emotional Capital
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Our “small giants” approach optimized for mojo over growth. We wanted a small, talent-dense team with a focus on craft, autonomy, and quality of life for all team members. We banished the term “founder” in favor of “partner” and tried to be transparent with all business matters across the team.
We took some capital from investors in order to invest ... See more
We took some capital from investors in order to invest ... See more
Muse Retrospective
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