Hiring Advice

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

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

Brandy Cerne

What Everybody Should Know About Contracting Developers

Trevor McKendrick trevormckendrick.com

Johanna

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Jordan Bester

Product Leadership Rules to Live By From My Experience at Pandora

First Round Capital review.firstround.com

Kassen Qian

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

It takes less effort to interview three times as many people as it does to turn a mediocre performer into a star.

name twitter.com

Jordan Bester

Hire people who give a shit.

Alexandr Wang alexw.substack.com

sari

The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building

Matt Mochary amazon.com

sari

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

Andrew Chen andrewchen.com

Sam Blumenthal