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Building a team.

Building the team around you: first hires, structure, managers, and keeping people as the company scales.

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The First Five Employees

Miguel Carranza, RevenueCat

✍️ Essay2021VC Backed

Hiring, Scaling, and Work/Life Balance

Nick Franklin, ChartMogul

🎧 Podcast2017

Setting Goals and Hiring

Timo Rein, Pipedrive

🎧 Podcast2017VC Backed

How to Build a Team, Raise Capital, and Make an Impact

Justin Kan, Twitch

🎀 Talk2017VC Backed

How to Build a Dream Team with Shane Snow

Shane Snow, Snow Academy

πŸŽ₯ Video Interview2018VC Backed

Recruiting is About Taking Risks

Elias Torres, Drift

✍️ Essay2015VC Backed

How I Hire: The 4 Principles For Recruiting the Best of the Best

Justin Rosenstein, Asana

✍️ Essay2013VC Backed

Hiring Humans Instead of Building Technology

Steli Efti, Close

✍️ Essay2014VC Backed

Building a Startup Team From Scratch

Tracy Young, Plangrid

🎀 Talk2015VC Backed

Offering Equity to Employees: a Deep Dive

Christian Gabriel, Capdesk

🎧 Podcast2021VC Backed

Remote Hiring: How to Screen for Remote Culture Fit

Steli Efti, Close

πŸŽ₯ Video Interview2020VC Backed

How Tech Legend Auren Hoffman Learned To Hire

Auren Hoffman, SafeGraph

πŸŽ₯ Video Interview2020VC Backed

Why I Hire People, Not Skills

David Cancel, Drift

✍️ Essay2016VC Backed

How You Can Hire The Top 1% Of All Candidates

Kyle Porter, SalesLoft

✍️ Essay2015VC Backed

Hiring is Marketing

Nick Francis, Help Scout

✍️ Essay2014VC Backed

3 Clever Ways to Build a Team That Can Work From Anywhere

Michael Pryor, Trello

✍️ Essay2016VC Backed

Hiring, People, and Time Management

Paul English, Lola.com

🎧 Podcast2017VC Backed

Tips on Managing, Recruiting & Firing as You Scale

Matthew Bellows, BodesWell

πŸ’¬ Text Interview

Attracting Top Talent for Your Remote Team

Nick Francis, Help Scout

✍️ Essay2016VC Backed

How to Grow Faster by Hiring Slower

Chris Savage, Wistia

✍️ Essay2017Bootstrapped

It's (Almost) Impossible to Go Wrong When You Hire People With These 4 Qualities

Julia Hartz, EventBrite

✍️ Essay2016VC Backed

How I Hire: The 5 People You Should Never Hire

Sam Shank, HotelTonight

✍️ Essay2013VC Backed

How To Build Your Startup’s Founding Team

Joe Procopio, Intrepid Media

✍️ Essay2020

Lessons From Scaling from 400 to 1,000 People in 1 Year

Sid Sijbrandij, GitLab

🎧 Podcast2019VC Backed

The Secret to Attracting Amazing Talent (Hint: It’s Not a Ping-Pong Table)

Kathryn Minshew, The Muse

✍️ Essay2016VC Backed

Hiring is a Two-way Street

Sandro Munda, Forest Admin

✍️ Essay2018VC Backed

How to Build a Great Product Team

Shishir Mehrotra, Coda

πŸŽ₯ Video Interview2021VC Backed

Learnings: Hiring For Roles We Have Never Played

Krish Subramanian, ChargeBee

✍️ Essay2020VC Backed

How to Hire People Who Are More Senior Than Yourself

Hiten Shah, FYI

🎧 Podcast2019

Why CEOs Hiring Themselves Out Of Roles Is Wrong

Daniel Kan, Cruise

🎧 Podcast2019VC Backed

How To Know When To Promote From Below Or Bring In External Candidates

Rick Nucci, Guru

🎧 Podcast2020VC Backed

Steli’s Outbound Recruiting Hack

Steli Efti, Close

🎧 Podcast2019VC Backed

Why Virtually All Companies Hire The Wrong Way

Mike Sliagadze, Top Hat

🎧 Podcast2018

The One Trait That Guarantees a Good Hire

Jason Fried, Basecamp

✍️ Essay2014Bootstrapped

How To Hire Incredible Talent Before You Are A Hot Company

Alex Wang, Scale

🎧 Podcast2019VC Backed

International Remote Employees Hiring + Compensation

Shuo Wang, Deel

🎀 Talk2021VC Backed

Great Companies Make Decisions By Evidence Instead of Job Titles

Thor Ernstsson, Alpha

🎧 Podcast2019VC Backed

Finding the Balance: 5 Strategies for Transparency During Layoffs

Matthew Bellows, BodesWell

✍️ Essay2015

Employee Retention in Startups

Hiten Shah, FYI

🎧 Podcast2018

Annual Raises, Finding Good Startup People, and More Listener Questions with Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford, Baremetrics

🎧 Podcast2021Bootstrapped

How to Build a Distributed Team for Fast Growth

Wade Foster, Zapier

🎧 Podcast2017Bootstrapped

6 Ways to Find A Technical Co-Founder

Matthew Bellows, BodesWell

✍️ Essay2012

A Guide for Hiring Your First CRO

Sandi Lin, Skilljar

🎧 Podcast2021VC Backed

Why and How to Fill Your Next Leadership Role From Within

Rick Nucci, Guru

✍️ Essay2015VC Backed

Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely

Wayne Chang, Digits

🎧 Podcast2020VC Backed

Hiring Tech Talent as a Non-Tech Founder

Dan Reich, Troops

🎧 Podcast2017VC Backed

Firing People Too Slow Will Kill Your Startup

Hiten Shah, FYI

🎧 Podcast2019

How to Build High Performing Software Teams

Jeff Lawson, Twilio

πŸŽ₯ Video Interview2021VC Backed

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