How to Scale: Lessons from Stripe CEO | Khosla
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How to Scale: Lessons from Stripe CEO | Khosla
Q: What should you look for in the first 10 hires of a company?
Ben Silbermann (founder of Pinterest) and Patrick & John Collison (co-founders of Stripe) share their answers in the clip below.
Ben Silbermann starts it off:
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In a world like that, my mind goes to, “How do you choose those 10 people?” One way is to choose people who are 10 times better than everyone else, who can produce 10 times more, and who will be 10 times more valuable to the business. The other way is to choose people based on whether you enjoy working with them, if they make you better, or if they
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