Sarah Nahm

9 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 10, 2019 by Sarah Nahm · across every show →

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Jul 10, 2019
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Nahm: Lever team agreed to make her CEO before Series A closed
“Literally kind of on the eve of our series A, we had signed a term sheet, but we hadn't closed the round. Kind of we as a team collectively agreed I should be CEO.”
Sarah Nahm Jul 10, 2019 ▶ 15:48 Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
Jul 10, 2019
Insight
Nahm: Founders hold startups back unless hiring is a core strategy
“Hiring is, like, hiring is the strategy when you're a startup. Like, there's a period at which, like, you know, like, you can be the best founder on the planet, and you will be holding your own company back if you haven't figured out how to truly prioritize hi…”
Sarah Nahm Jul 10, 2019 ▶ 18:42 Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
Jul 10, 2019
Insight
Nahm: Team and macro trends matter more than personal ability
“Probably the biggest thing to truly getting started was, you know, again, people. Believing in the people that you're working with. Believing in the people around you. And then secondly, you know, I think believing in a change that's happening in the world. An…”
Sarah Nahm Jul 10, 2019 ▶ 10:53 Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
Jul 10, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Nahm: Lever uses a career trajectory interview walking candidates from college forward
“We do a step in our process that we call career trajectory, and it's basically A behavioral interviewing interview where you go in and you just kind of start at, you know, college and then go step by step by step through people's career and allow them to tell …”
Sarah Nahm Jul 10, 2019 ▶ 27:51 Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
Jul 10, 2019
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Nahm: Pre-nurtured candidates get hired 35% faster than cold applicants
“They actually get hired, like we have the data to prove this, like, 35% faster, Than people who are meeting you for the first time.”
Sarah Nahm Jul 10, 2019 ▶ 21:24 Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
Jul 10, 2019
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Nahm was the only woman at Lever for two years
“You know, for two, two and a half years, I was the only woman at Lever.”
Sarah Nahm Jul 10, 2019 ▶ 39:57 Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
Jul 10, 2019
Insight
Nahm: Companies must build inclusive culture before diversity recruiting
“Before you're about to do a big investment into diversity in your recruiting, and making kind of your hiring more diverse, I actually think it's really critical to start by making sure your culture is inclusive. Because what's the point of, like, hiring all th…”
Sarah Nahm Jul 10, 2019 ▶ 40:37 Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
Jul 10, 2019
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Nahm: 81% of Lever's engineering team was proactively sourced
“81% of his team was proactively sourced.”
Sarah Nahm Jul 10, 2019 ▶ 20:19 Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
Jul 10, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Nahm: Lever's first interview stage is explicitly named Motivation Fit
“At Lever, our first stage of our hiring process, it's not Phone screen. It's not something like that's just screening. I can't, it's motivation fit. Like literally that's what the name of the stage is.”
Sarah Nahm Jul 10, 2019 ▶ 24:26 Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
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