Hiring Advice

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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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

Product Manager Resume Guide by an Ex-Facebook PM

will lawrence productlife.to

Tom So

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

Why and how we do work trials at Linear

Zoe Wellner linear.app

andrea

Hire Runner

hirerunner.co

Kat Fergerson

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

Andrew Chen andrewchen.com

Sam Blumenthal

High EQ + Persuasion. People who have a clear-headed view of a situation, and the soft skills/influence chops to bend the environment to their will, are especially valuable. It’s an underrated skill.
1. What to look for:

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

Brandy Cerne

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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