On talent

How the Greatest Entrepreneurs Hire (h/t David Senra)

• Steve Jobs stated that each new hire became a percentage of the company, so why wouldn’t you take the time to find all A-players?

• David Ogilvy, as an already established businessman, would see advertisements that he liked and then cold call the person who made the ad — this is how he sourced his

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What is “talent?” Well, I suppose it’s the ability to do that which is excellent (that which astounds, amazes, and so on). It’s a bit circular, really: if you can write something that astounds, that is, de facto, proof of talent. Is there a way to predict it, to diagnostically spot it early, and issue some sort of reassuring certification, that one... See more