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.

dreamers addicted to reality instead of realists addicted to dreams. -Neri Oxman on what she looks for when hiring

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.