recruiting

“Anybody who mastered the skill of either recruiting or PR or customer acquisition for startups can leverage that skill at a firm, especially as more and more firms are looking to build platforms that add value.”

“So, you know, in the research we did, interviewing over 500 founders, recruiting was the number one pain point of almost all the founders”

“When you're fundraising, you have to present a big picture. When you're recruiting, you have to present a big picture. When, even, even when you're just trying to keep your mental health of why is this so hard? You have to believe in that big vision.”

“My favorite hires that I've ever made are people that actually come from recruiting that want to make the transition into tech sales. And a lot of that is because They're super organized. They're making calls all day to people who are probably not in the marke…”

“The future is going to, when it comes to recruiting, it looks a lot more like dating where it's like there's Two swipe rights equal a match. Then it's like a double opt in, like warm intro versus most of today, how a candidate finds a company is wildly random …”

“I think that's the number one way that companies do benefit from having Sequoia on the cap table, is that, is talent and recruiting, and we can talk more about that, and I'm fascinated by recruiting, and recruiting dynamics, so I do think Sequoia helps with th…”