Duderstadt: Nomic AI recruits heavily directly from its open-source Discord community
Brandon Duderstadt · How Nomic AI Is Driving The Open Source Revolution · Feb 1, 2024 · at 40:16
Brandon Duderstadt, CEO and co-founder of Nomic AI, discusses the company's hiring strategy and talent sourcing with host Matt Turck.
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“And also we hire a lot out of open source. And so if people want to get involved, like, you know, we hired Zach out of open source you know, a couple of people that we picked up during the big hiring spree after we raised our A. You know Adam, Aaron Jared. These are all people that have interacted with us on open source in discord before”
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