Leadership: Hiring & recruitment
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Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
When to hire, business banking, and bootstrapper news
Startups For the Rest of Us
July 27, 2021
Hiring & recruitment
8
Long-term planning
6
Productivity & habits
5
- Hire when tasks repeat and compound—your first hires are support and developers, not sales
- A plane, coffee shop, or constraint creates 10x focus through timeboxing
- Modern business banking finally disrupts a 1992-era industry with founder-friendly tools
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How AppSumo hired a new CEO for its $85M business
Noah Kagan
June 7, 2021
Hiring & recruitment
9
Long-term planning
6
- The CEO who scaled you to $100M can't scale you to $1B
- AppSumo's outgoing CEO initiated his own replacement
- A $100K referral bounty turned hiring into a PR event
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
Task-level, project-level, and owner-level thinkers
Startups For the Rest of Us
May 25, 2021
Hiring & recruitment
7
Long-term planning
6
Identity & self-belief
5
- Scale by hiring owner-level thinkers who think long-term and drive entire efforts.
- Autopilot businesses die after 12–18 months when algorithms, APIs, or competitors change.
- Your unfair advantage is rarely your ability to code—it's the gift others envy.
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
Annual raises, pricing, branding, and hiring for small startups
Startups For the Rest of Us
April 6, 2021
Hiring & recruitment
8
Pricing strategy
7
Processes & SOPs
5
- Raises should reward skill growth, not just years of tenure
- Most bootstrapped products are underpriced — test changes silently first
- Self-employed and freelance backgrounds predict small-team success
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to find the right co-founder for your startup
Y Combinator
March 25, 2021
Hiring & recruitment
9
Equity & cap tables
6
- How your co-founder handles stress matters more than their skills.
- Default to 50/50 equity — long-term motivation beats short-term fairness.
- Work on projects together first; commitment conversations come after.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to decide when to remove a wrong hire
Bill Gallagher
March 23, 2021
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
6
- Keeping the wrong person costs more than an empty seat
- Values fit outweighs performance when deciding who must go
- The Talent Assessment Grid shows who to replace, develop, or retain
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How startups can win hiring battles against big tech companies
Y Combinator
February 8, 2021
Hiring & recruitment
9
Competitive analysis
5
- Your hiring speed exposes big tech's bureaucracy to candidates directly.
- Personalised follow-ups from every interviewer signal a culture big companies can't match.
- Big-company project cancellations are your best argument for joining a startup.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
The seven types of COO and how to choose the right one
Cameron Herold
December 13, 2020
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
6
Outsourcing & delegation
5
- Harvard identified seven distinct COO types — each serves a different need
- Giving the COO title too early strands the person with nowhere to grow
- There is no universal COO scorecard; the role depends on which type you need
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Why artists make strong co-founders for gaming startups
Y Combinator
December 7, 2020
Hiring & recruitment
8
Niche selection
6
- Investors funded Multiverse's seed round based on their trailer alone
- Illustrators already run businesses — audiences, recurring revenue, community
- Find artist co-founders on Twitter and ArtStation, not LinkedIn
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
How Amazon runs meetings, decisions, and hiring without PowerPoint
How I Work
September 2, 2020
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
9
Business operating systems
8
- Why banning PowerPoint forces clearer thinking and better decisions
- Constraint beats unlimited resources for driving real innovation
- A veto-wielding bar raiser removes bias from every hiring decision
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
When to hire a COO and how to make the partnership work
Cameron Herold
August 31, 2020
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
8
Outsourcing & delegation
6
- Self-reliance becomes a ceiling — and the right COO breaks it.
- Hire for trust first: hand them your banking login on day one.
- Before a COO, hire an EA — or you already are one.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to find and work with the right co-founder
Noah Kagan
August 17, 2020
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
6
Equity & cap tables
5
- Start alone first — momentum makes co-founder recruitment far easier
- Shared vision is non-negotiable; disagreements on tactics are fine
- Equity is permanent — treat co-founder selection like a marriage, not a date
How asking for help unlocks growth when self-reliance becomes the bottleneck
Bill Gallagher
June 3, 2020
Delegation
9
Resilience & grit
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
- Self-reliance that saved you as a child caps your company's growth
- Childhood patterns — not bad strategy — are usually what blocks founders
- Tools only work once the leader does the inner work first
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
When to hire a second-in-command: signals and sequencing
Cameron Herold
April 1, 2020
Hiring & recruitment
8
Outsourcing & delegation
6
- Hire an EA before a COO — clear admin first
- Second-in-command typically needed at 30–50 employees
- Title should match role, not jump straight to COO
Netflix's Reed Hastings on building a culture that scales
Masters of Scale
February 6, 2020
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
8
Business operating systems
5
- Over-processing every mistake builds a workforce of rule-followers, not thinkers
- Netflix's public Culture Deck filters out wrong-fit candidates before they apply
- The keeper test: would your manager fight to keep you if you tried to leave?