hiring

“As somebody who's run large recruiting organizations that have hired thousands and thousands of people, yeah, I would say that the chances that you're gonna find somebody who's extraordinary in a position is about one in five.”

“Shopify hires through ah, we talk about just your life story a lot, and I feel like we can find a lot of predictive artifacts in, in a life story about which kind of type of pursuit you're on.”

“I think that internal drive is something you can't teach. And I'm very, you know, perhaps that goes against current wisdom. I do think that as long as someone has that internal hunger and that internal drive, you know, there was a, there's an old saying that y…”

“If you thought of it as a CapEx decision, if you're going to hire someone for a hundred grand, right, a year, and you think the, you know, discount the value of that, like, you know, it's a million dollar investment that you're making in that person.”