Hiring Advice

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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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How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others (50 slides) at andrewchen

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Jordan Bester

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

2 Signs That You Will Become Wealthy One Day..

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Jordan Bester

Using the collaborate before you commit approach empowers both the candidate and the person hiring, because they both have the agency to decide whether the situation feels right to them. Was there chemistry? Was there magic? Was it more awkward than you might have liked?

Yancey Strickler • Notes on hiring

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Why not hire part-time developers?

Alex Klos aklos.substack.com

Johanna

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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The Mitochondria in Startups

Sarah Tavel sarahtavel.medium.com

Juan Orbea

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