Puri: Asking candidates about sleepless work stretches screens for extreme obsession
Shaan Puri · Finding +$1M Businesses From Weird Trends (#523) · Nov 27, 2023 · at 29:37
Shaan Puri shares an interview framework called 'The Dr. Dre Question' (learned from Cal Fussman) to filter for early-stage startup hires with unreasonable dedication.
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“What's the longest you've ever gone on a project you were passionate about without sleep? And their answer will tell you a lot. Either they'll struggle to even come up with a number because they don't, they've ever actually had an obsession, a project they're so passionate about that they kind of became a degenerate. They let other parts of their life go, like sleeping and eating and talking to people and answering the phone, and they just got completely lost in it. Either they'll, that will be unfamiliar to them, or it'll be familiar to them, and you'll be able to tell that right away.”
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