Bankman-Fried: FTX hired for composure under pressure rather than prior experience
Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele (Extended Cut) · Acquired · Dec 15, 2021 · at 1:36:49
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried explains FTX's talent acquisition philosophy and criteria for operational leverage.
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“Experience is very much not what we hire for. Right. In fact, sometimes we're almost like, you know, I wouldn't quite say we're anti-selecting for it, but, like, we like flexibility, and we like, you know, much more than, like, I don't know, we can teach things. Like, if there's something you don't know, that, that, that, you can overcome that. It's much harder to overcome, like, we can't teach someone necessarily how to, like, stay cool under pressure, or something like that.”
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