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>Greg is a world-class recruiter (he plans every detail of interviews, heavily researches candidate’s backgrounds, sends thoughtful and persistent followups, an
by rl3 10y ago
>Greg is a world-class recruiter (he plans every detail of interviews, heavily researches candidate’s backgrounds, sends thoughtful and persistent followups, and so on), and I now believe even more strongly that someone on the founding team has to be an amazing recruiter.
I maintain a version-controlled text file of people I want to hire for my startup, should hell ever freeze over and I secure funding some day.
The nice part is that doing so usually goes hand-in-hand with the product/market/technology research you conduct anyways, so the practice has a very low time investment attached to it. For the most part, you simply stumble upon desirable people during the course of seemingly unrelated research, dig into their background, and then add them to the list.
On a humorous note, quite a few people on my list later ended up being hired by YC HARC. Hey Sam, what are the finer points of YC companies* trying to hire talent attached to YC projects? Can you offer any pointers? :)
* Not a YC company (yet).
- jimmykennedy 10y ago"should hell ever freeze over and I secure funding some day" Your low self-esteem is sabotaging you.
- rl3 10y agoAh, it was intended as half tongue-in-cheek. Making light of tough situations is usually for the best. Sorry for not making that more clear. My smiley face budget had already been reached by the latter portion of that post. Anything exceeding one smiley and you end up looking like you're on something, especially on HN. Heck, even just one can be suspect!
- jessaustin 10y agoYes it's better to be misunderstood, than to use too many smileys.
- rl3 10y agoCase in point: I'm not sure if your comment was genuine snark, or if you simply refrained from adding a smiley. It's turtles all the way down. :)
- hobofan 10y agoOr it's just a healthy portion of self-deprecating humor.
- fhood 10y agoI like that philosophy. Try hard but have low expectations. Makes it harder to get discouraged, when things inevitably don't pan out.
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