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There's probably a way to ask this politely, but I'll just ask bluntly to save time and confusion... Did you think you could change the way people hired overn

There's probably a way to ask this politely, but I'll just ask bluntly to save time and confusion... Did you think you could change the way people hired overnight? There probably is a way to do what you set out to do, but it seemed obvious to me from the moment you announced it would take years of slogging and building a track record to change such ingrained processes at companies. Revolutions on that scale are never going to happen in a few months. The reason I thought you guys had a shot was that you'd be stubborn enouh to stick to it in the face of resistance.

sjg007 10y ago
The agency model is overrated and will be replaced with AI.
tptacek 10y ago
Yes, I do think that it's possible. To get Google to do it? No. To get a bunch of smaller companies to do it? NCC is larger than most YC startups, and this is how we did recruiting there. I have thoughts on how I'd do contingency recruiting differently if I had to do it over again, and I have thoughts on what I think a better model for this would be than trying to do contingency recruiting from day one. What I don't want to do is write them up in HN comments that will further sap me of any will to do a real writeup.