Hiring Advice

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Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

Howard Schultz • Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

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How to hire

Sam Altman blog.samaltman.com

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The Associate Product Manager Playbook

will lawrence productlife.to

Tom So

Building Trust and Assessing Integrity as You Interview | Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz (AZ)future.com

Steph Alinsug

Hire people who give a shit.

Alexandr Wang alexw.substack.com

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Find out their wins above replacement. Through the stories they tell, look to see if the end result of the thing they did would have been significantly worse without their involvement. Try to separate their actions from those of their team or the circumstance. This quality should both highlight their talents and their sense of agency and

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

Brandy Cerne

@mckaywrigley I have a bunch of questions I ask. What would you build for yourself? What did previous companies you've worked for need? What are you an expert in? What have you noticed recently that seemed broken? If you were going to build something just for fun, what would it be?

Paul Graham x.com

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Mechanize Your Hiring Process to Make Better Decisions

First Round Capital review.firstround.com

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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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