The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
why aren't all 11 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Hanson: Most recruitment tech merely pushes candidates into lateral career moves
“Nowadays most recruitment technologies or recruitment agencies are simply trying to move people laterally, so they'll say, you have this skill set and profile, this matches this job, whereas it doesn't always work like that, and sometimes people actually want …”
Hanson: Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan Are Top Asian Startup Hubs
“I would say in terms of location, if you're talking about Asia, you probably want to go somewhere where there's a good startup community and support environment. So Hong Kong, Singapore's very good. Japan's also well developed.”
Hanson: Friends and family cannot offer co-founder level startup advice
“People, friends, family, they're always there to give advice, but ultimately they're not seeing the same challenges and pressures day to day that your co-founder is, so you're not going to get you know, the same level of advice with the same level of buying as…”
Hanson: Non-Technical CEOs Must Learn Technical Basics to Recruit Engineering Talent
“He needs to feel confident that he can put them in front of me, and I'm going to be able to talk with a basic knowledge about what that developer's been doing in his past history. Ultimately, as CEO, I need to be able to attract talent right the way across the…”
Hanson: Founders should assess startup needs before prioritizing accelerator equity terms
“In my opinion, I would have thought that the idea about how much equity you're willing to give up should come a little bit later on.”
Hanson: Reid Hoffman stepping down as LinkedIn CEO was smart and selfless
“I did promise that I'd divert everybody to Founders Friday episode two for more on that but my serious answer is going to be Reid Hoffman and I know I mentioned him before with the Alliance, but I think in terms of a founder who, one of the things I really adm…”
Hanson: Job application barriers are at an all-time low due to quick-apply buttons
“Because you've got, ah, quick apply buttons everywhere, the barrier to application is, I would say, it's an all-time low.”
Hong Kong's Blueprint Accelerator Takes Zero Equity in Participating Startups
“They don't take any equity in the startups, which is fantastic compared to a lot of other accelerator programs.”
Hiring Screen Developed an Algorithm to Score and Rank Job Applicants
“So I got together with my co-founder, Luke Byrne, and we developed an algorithm that basically helps score, sort, and select the most relevant candidates from that pool.”
Hanson Learned Basic HTML and CSS on Codecademy for Technical Literacy
“For myself, not having a technical background, I mean, I went on to Code Academy and you know, I took the HTML and you know, CSS course just so that I actually knew what, you know, title tags were and how to do basic CSS.”
Hiring Screen Uses Reid Hoffman's 'Tour of Duty' Framework for Product
“I think it's a very refreshing take on things, and some of the principles that they talk about in that book, like the tour of duty concept of employment, those are some of the principles that we actually have underpinning hiring screens development as a produc…”