Tradeweb CEO Billy Hult admits only 50% of his people bets succeed
Billy Hult · Billy Hult: 27 Years of Compounding Growth Leading to the Market Leader with $1.4BN in Revenue|E1134 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Mar 29, 2024 · at 46:36
Billy Hult is the CEO of Tradeweb Markets ($22B market cap). He reflects on his personal track record when making talent and personnel decisions.
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“I was gonna say 50. You know, and I, and I'm like, man, like if I'm filling out like a survey or a form and I'm listing my strengths, I'd like, oh, like the way I think about things, the way I get to know people like that, the kind of antenna thing that we were talking about, like the concept of being able to have like intuition, all of those things should be like bright lights pointing towards like 75% or like a hundred percent, like everyone, but like the answer is no.”
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