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Wessel: Direct reports to WayUp CEO must be Type A
“If you're working for me there's a few things that you have to have in personality type that I won't I wouldn't hire you to work for me directly. And it's fine to work for someone else, but I'm not gonna hire you to work not for me if you don't, for example, i…”
Opinion
Botha via Wessel: Google offers premier operating experience for future founders
“Google is one of the best operating companies in the world, tech companies especially. You'll be surrounded by great managers, great engineers. You'll meet great talent that you might hire one day.”
Insight
Wessel: Maximize cold outreach because people stop helping once you graduate
“No one doesn't want to help college students. I feel like the second you graduate, you lose this huge, Badge of pride that you get to say, I'm a college student, and the second you graduate, like, people are much less likely to help you. So use it and abuse it…”
Insight
Wessel: Knowing more about a company than the interviewer guarantees impressing them
“If you show up to an interview and you show that you know more about the company than the person interviewing you will impress them. Period. End of story. You will impress them.”
Opinion
Wessel: HR tech still struggles with basic applicant tracking system integrations
“HR tech is pretty behind the times. I mean, we're sending men and women to space, and yet we're still, like, really struggling to get applicant tracking system integrations in place.”
Insight
Wessel: Untested college expectations drive early-career job switching
“Most commonly when I see people switching their first full-time job within less than a year, which a lot of people do, as you know it's often because they just never had an opportunity to try it out in college, so like, try out everything in college.”
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Wessel: Executives can answer quick email questions, not 20-minute calls
“Literally my calendar starts at eight AM and stops at one AM almost every day, five to six days a week. And so for me, 20 minutes on calendar is actually a really big deal. Asking me an email that I can just answer on my walk from, you know, one meeting to ano…”
Opinion
Wessel: Starting a Business Has Become Ubiquitous Among US College Students
“Now I feel like it's a prerequisite to graduating from college in the U.S., or at least at Penn. It just seems like everyone's starting businesses which is funny, because it's not like I graduated so long ago.”
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Wessel hacked a Penn hackathon database to scout a technical co-founder
“And what I ended up doing was I found my way, snuck my way into, I think in YC they would call it, they hacked your way into the database of every single person who signed up, where I could see their resume and all of their information. And you were not suppos…”
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Wessel: Under 9% of internships on WayUp are unpaid
“We have less than
Nine percent of internships on way up are unpaid, so.”
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Wessel: Sold thousands of Penn Eats discount cards for $15 each
“I called it the Penn Eats card, and I sold, I got back to campus in my junior summer, I hired all my friends to basically go around selling these cards for 15 bucks a pop, and we sold, like, thousands”
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Wessel: Google APMM program hires 25 to 50 US students annually
“They hire, like, 25 to 50 U.S. College students each year to be in this program, and it's filled with alumni who have started unbelievable businesses.”
Insight
Wessel: Post-interview thank-you notes are rare among students and make candidates stand out
“Just send a thank you note. No one, especially college students, tend to do this these days, and it makes you stick out so much and shows this level of professionalism, which really is pretty easy to accomplish by just sending a thank you note.”
Assertion Contradicted
Wessel: WayUp raised $9 million before hiring its first VP
“At that time, we'd only raised nine million dollars, which is still, I know, it sounds like a lot, but that's not enough to ensure that you are going to be You know, around for years and years to come.”
