How Gusto Built Scalable Hiring Practices Rooted in Tradition
First Round Capitalreview.firstround.com
Saved by Johanna
How Gusto Built Scalable Hiring Practices Rooted in Tradition
Gusto founder Josh Reeves explains how he came up with a $10 billion startup idea
Josh and his two cofounders knew they wanted to build something really big that they could dedicate decades of their lives to, and they bucketed startup ideas into two categories:
1. Concrete problems. “There are existing products and solutions out there… The questi... See more
Startup Archivex.comHearing Dan Cable, author of Change to Strange, speak at a Young Presidents’ Organization program at London Business School, Browne wondered: 1. How can we expect our employees to be extraordinary and differentiate the company if we use the same hiring and onboarding methods as competitors? 2. What characteristics describe our ideal workforce that
... See moreVerne Harnish • Scaling Up : How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)
The most innovative leaps you’ll ever make, especially if you’re a network, are going to be when you’re really, really small. You can change the product entirely in a week. Try doing that at LinkedIn or Airbnb today. That would be a huge disaster. So I think taking advantage of that subscale — designing the perfect experience, asking yoursel
... See moreReid Hoffman • How to Scale a Magical Experience: 4 Lessons from Airbnb’s Brian Chesky
Elliott doubled back to Joel Holland. But instead of asking him to fully commit, he posed a different question, one that would later become the bedrock of Summit Series’s strategy for growth: Elliott asked him if there was anybody else he knew who might like to come.