Campbell: Top SEO talent requires equity and upside, not just high salaries
Harry Campbell · How The Rideshare Guy Turned Uber, Lyft Drivers into a Media Empire · May 25, 2023 · at 35:43
Harry Campbell, founder of The Rideshare Guy, discusses recruiting elite talent to scale digital media businesses.
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“Like you can't hire the best SEO person in the world. For a 100,000 dollars a year, you probably can't hire them for a million dollars a year, to be perfectly honest. Like you almost have to get the best people, you know, incentivized upside equity, you know, that kind of partnership”
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