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Hiring.

How founders find, interview and hire: first employees, recruiting at scale, compensation and the hires they would make differently.

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Hiring, Scaling, and Work/Life Balance

Nick Franklin, ChartMogul

🎧 Podcast2017

Setting Goals and Hiring

Timo Rein, Pipedrive

🎧 Podcast2017VC 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

Remote Hiring: How to Screen for Remote Culture Fit

Steli Efti, Close

🎥 Video Interview2020VC Backed

7 Things You Must Do If You’re Going to Successfully Bootstrap

Perry Oostdam, Recruitee

✍️ Essay2020Bootstrapped

How Tech Legend Auren Hoffman Learned To Hire

Auren Hoffman, SafeGraph

🎥 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

Recruitee's Public Roadmap

Perry Oostdam, Recruitee

🧩 TemplateBootstrapped

Hiring, People, and Time Management

Paul English, Lola.com

🎧 Podcast2017VC Backed

Tips on Managing, Recruiting & Firing as You Scale

Matthew Bellows, BodesWell

💬 Text Interview

Attracting Top Talent for Your Remote Team

Nick Francis, Help Scout

✍️ Essay2016VC Backed

How DoorDash Have Won The Best Talent Against the Toughest Competition

Tony Xu, DoorDash

🎧 Podcast2021

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

Bootstrapping, Accepting Outside Money, And the Drawbacks of Hiring Too Fast

Josh Pigford, Baremetrics

🎧 Podcast2017Bootstrapped

Changing a Startup Team’s Culture vs Hiring a New Team?

Steli Efti, Close

🎧 Podcast2018VC 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

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

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

A Guide for Hiring Your First CRO

Sandi Lin, Skilljar

🎧 Podcast2021VC Backed

Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely

Wayne Chang, Digits

🎧 Podcast2020VC Backed

Community and Customer Development

Perry Oostdam, Recruitee

🎧 Podcast2017Bootstrapped

Hiring Tech Talent as a Non-Tech Founder

Dan Reich, Troops

🎧 Podcast2017VC Backed

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