Steve Pokros

“If you're an investor company, you're investing two years in front of where you want to be. And if you're a bootstrapped company, you're investing what you needed to do two years ago now.”

“So we have an extensive recruiting process where we have Eight to 10 people interview every person that comes on board.”

“So I had a budget where I could choose one sales person or an executive coach to support all my new leaders on my first year. And I chose an executive coach to coach up that team so they could do all of these things. So that's where strategy gets made and some…”

“Every person that you're buying, that you're bringing on board is an explorer. They're creating their own job rec. So you created a job rec that you thought was going to fit them, but they'd never created that job. And so you should think about the people you'…”

“Every member of this leadership team that I've hired over the last six years, we have had zero percent turnover.”

“Everyone of these leaders who came to our company took a pay cut to come to my company to do this because they want to be there.”

“We firmly Believe that scorecards are stupid. I think that scorecards make you feel like the choice that you made makes you feel better about the choice you made. It only reifies your existing values and your existing choices.”

“If you're going to build a strategy about hiring top tech talent, that's flexible and passionate But has never done it before. You need to give them a lot more resources.”

“So we now, once you're big enough, so it took us a while to get there, but I'm a part of every onboarding session too. I want to run the part about culture. I want to talk about the culture company history.”

“I took over the company from the founders in 2000 at The end of 2016. So we have been growing at 40 to 50% successfully on a bootstrap budget since then.”

“The first thing is I don't believe in hiring for experience at a zero to ten million type of range. There are very few positions that require a large amount of been there before done that. Those are the most expensive people. Those are the most the most compet…”

“Your copywriter should be able to do this within, like, 30 minutes, and you're having your HR people write this.”

“We offer 200 dollars if you dye your hair one of Verblio's three colors. It has to be over 50%, and I have to approve it.”