Kurtz: CrowdStrike built early global remote workforce around top talent
George Kurtz · 20VC: Crowdstrike Founder, George Kurtz on Scaling to a $60Bn Market Cap, How to Acquire and Retain the World's Best Talent & The Right Way to View Competition in Today's Market? · Oct 14, 2021 · at 6:13
George Kurtz, founder and CEO of CrowdStrike, contrasts his early hiring approach at CrowdStrike with his previous experience at Foundstone.
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“I focused on getting the top 20 people wherever they were in the world, and we didn't really care about having them in an office. And we really, I would say, pioneered a lot of, pioneered, maybe that's the wrong word, but we were ahead of the curve in terms of work from anywhere because we picked the right people.”
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