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You want to qualify your relationship with a founder based solely on the answer to a single question about a popular Hollywood flick?
by kirpekar 16y ago
You want to qualify your relationship with a founder based solely on the answer to a single question about a popular Hollywood flick?
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- waxman 16y agoFor these types of decisions (picking co-founders, hiring, etc.) you want no false positives, which means that any legitimate red flag should be a deal-breaker. The cost of passing on the right person is far less than the cost of saying yes to the wrong one (e.g. passing over a good biz dev guy who goes on to succeed at another start-up vs. hiring a jerk who ruins your business then sues you)
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- kirpekar 16y agoI think we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one. "passing on the right person" = is often the difference between success and failure. "the cost of saying yes to the wrong one" = A few weeks wasted, and start over. Whatever you do, please don't write people off with one question. Engage with them, build relationships and draw out their best. Has worked for me. Zuck or Winkle, really does not matter.
- blogimus 16y agoI think what the blogger is saying indirectly that is a test that is necessary but not sufficient to qualify a non-technical co-founder. If you ask this as the first question, then it will save you the time for the rest of the questions.
- apike 16y agoIt's the same as weeding out programmers by starting with the FizzBuzz question. For it to be worthwhile, you need to be interviewing a lot of potential candidates.