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Hiring Religion
On Hiring: look for these 4 qualities, the rest can be taught
- Very deep love for learning: love learning and will do it for free, being intellectually curious
- Incredible work ethic: can test for this
- Investing is an EQ business not an IQ business, about mental flexibility: persistence and grit: beaten down and pucked in the face, seen hardship, come
Invest like the Best • Internet Scale Businesses
I believe that recruiting is just something that you need to do relentlessly. And how well you balance your ego ultimately shows up with your approach towards recruiting. I am a believer in taking risks with hiring, adding additional DNA to a system.
Tarang Shah, Tarang Shah, Sheetal Shah • Venture Capitalists at Work: How VCs Identify and Build Billion-Dollar Successes
Treat your values as articles of faith. Screen candidates for these values and be willing to let an otherwise good candidate go if he is not a cultural fit.
Sam Altman • How to hire
Questions for the candidateWhat criteria would you use to hire someone to do this job if you were in my seat?How would your spouse or sibling describe you with ten adjectives?I think we’re aligned in wanting this to be a good fit, you don’t want us to counsel you out in six months and neither do we. Let’s take the perspective of ourselves in six mo... See more