Hiring Advice

The job description Bezos wrote for his very first employee said, “You must have experience designing and building large and complex (yet maintainable) systems, and you should be able to do so in about one-third the time that most competent people think possible.

Colin Bryar • Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

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A Strategist’s Go-To-Market Strategy Guide — rational vc

Iman Olya rationalvc.com

Emilie Kormienko

Only hire A-players; people that blow you away. As soon as you allow mediocrity into your team, it will rot your business from the inside forevermore.

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rob hardy

The biggest difference in how I’m hiring the second time around: Indexing heavily on people who really, really want to work at a high growth startup If a candidate is deciding between us and a comfortable job at a big tech company, it’s already not a fit

Ankur Nagpal twitter.com

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What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth at andrewchen

Andrew Chen andrewchen.com

Sam Blumenthal

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Bill Gates on Microsoft's "hard-core detractors" December 4, 1993

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Jordan Bester

A lot of very smart people work in strange ways / with a lot of quirks (e.g. contemplating for hours and appearing to do nothing, while then suddenly having 100x output burst). This usually makes them not a great fit for traditional corporate world, where you often have to fake…

Laura Wendel x.com

andrea

Navigate the world on their own terms. The best high potential youth are often unconventional in some ways. And if you’re looking for someone unconventional and high potential, they’ll often have a rationale for their unconventional approach. Ideally they can describe their weird path in an internally coherent way without being egotistical or

Tara Seshan • How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People

Brandy Cerne

Determine if they have a chip on their shoulder . Do they have something to prove? Where’s the hole they’re looking to fill? Ideally, you’d get someone with obvious talent/drive that is misunderstood by the world. Those types of people will run through walls to reconcile their internal view of themselves with external perception.

What you’re

Tara Seshan • How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People

Brandy Cerne