Lonsdale: Early elite talent was essential to Palantir's recruiting flywheel
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Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir and 8VC partner, discusses early talent acquisition strategies at Palantir with Codie Sanchez.
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“The reason we were able to recruit a lot of the best people is we started with a bunch of the best people. So it's very chicken and egg. I, you know, from the chess world, from the math world, from Stanford computer science, from my friends who, you know, were at Caltech and MIT, we had a really strong group to start. And once you have a really strong group, people are like, oh yeah, my smartest friend from Caltech went here. I should go check it out. And then you have to convince them of a mission when they come and convince them that they're going to be solving these really interesting, hard problems.”
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