Hiring Advice

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

Hire people who give a shit.

Alexandr Wang alexw.substack.com

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How to Scale: Lessons from Stripe CEO | Khosla

khoslaventures.com

Brie Wolfson

The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building

Matt Mochary amazon.com

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here are some posts about online communities that I find very good for one reason or another (Not a full list, no particular order, mostly from the running list we keep at @capiche. screenshots in this thread are their quotes, not my notes) Please add to this... See more

austin petersmith twitter.com

Jordan Bester

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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How to interview product managers

Lenny Rachitsky lennysnewsletter.com

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Talent as leverage

Dwarkesh Patel dwarkeshpatel.com

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