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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Elon Musk on remote work May 31, 2022 https://t.co/gTw1Bdh18h

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Jordan Bester

The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0)

Joel Spolsky joelonsoftware.com

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Theory for excellence. "Excellence" is a surprisingly generalizable skill. People who've been great at *anything* are more likely to have the drive and self-discipline to excel even at something unrelated. In 2015, we hired a number of ex-Juilliard musicians with no engineering experience with the assumption that “people who know how to be