White-Sullivan hired co-founder Joshua Brown after Brown learned Clojure in 3 weeks
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Conor White-Sullivan, CEO of Roam Research, describes how he tested co-founder Joshua Brown's self-directed learning abilities before asking him to co-found Roam.
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“If you can teach yourself closure in a month, I'll give you a job. And he learned it in three weeks and then made him an offer to be a co-founder, like maybe three or four weeks after that.”
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