Puri: Pre-made proof of work beats traditional resume job applications
Shaan Puri · MFM #157: Instagram Food Drops Making $200k/Week, Chrome Extensions That're Crushing & Open Salaries · Mar 3, 2021 · at 2:36
Shaan Puri evaluates an unsolicited video pitch sent by podcast fans offering to revamp the production and editing for My First Million.
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“This is like, this is, you know, like, it's like the opposite of a job application. Normally you get a job app. You put a job up that you want to hire somebody to do X and then some people apply. And then you're like, are you kind of squinting? You're like, do I think this person's really going to be able to do it? And then you'd make a guess. And then it takes them fucking six weeks to ramp up. And then, or this guy just applies showing, look, I can do it. I've done it for myself. I'll do it for you. And let me make this easy for you. Let me show you how bad I want this. And I just thought, like, this is so much better than what we've been talking about of trying to find people to do this stuff.”
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