Puri: Early degenerate obsessions are the strongest startup hiring signal
Shaan Puri · Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510) · Oct 20, 2023 · at 1:00:30
Shaan Puri shares his framework for startup recruiting, arguing that intense intrinsic obsession in childhood or gaming predicts exceptional drive in employees.
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“We noticed that the people who were the best earlier in their life had a degenerate, like, obsession with something that wasn't, like, The thing your parents would reward you for where the school would reward you for. So for a lot of people was gaming. It's like, oh I just spent like an ungodly amount of hours in, in Ultima four or like, you know, runescape or something like that. That was such a strong signal to us that like this person is going to be great now with us because they have that switch where once they get really into something, they practice to like to master it and they get obsessed. They want to beat the game. And like, they're not doing it for the, because people told them to do this. They're doing it because they can't not do it.”
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