Startup founders discuss how to recruit, hire, and keep good people. They emphasize that shared values matter when picking co-founders and building a team that actually stays.
And when you read blogs or posts.
Or interviews with founders and CEOs, so.
Many of them say that they spend.
90% of their time or more on recruiting and hiring.
That is still puzzling to us because.
It'S very uncommon to have a talent.
Professional as a co founder today in.
The VC backed world, we think that will change.
Our investors feel like it's been a.
Good value add, but internally it's been extremely successful. We in about a year built a company that has about 70 people.
Almost every single one of our employees is outperforming our expectations for their role.
And we have an incredibly high retention rate.
So we think it was a good.
Move for this class. And personally for me though, I think.
What could be a challenge for you one day is figuring out if you.
Want to quit your job or if you want to take this risk and.
Start a company with someone.
And to me this was one of a couple of things that stood out.
As a true differentiator between the group we were co founding with and other.
Companies I'd seen in the past.
I knew that by hiring this person they were very forward thinking about people.
And truly investing in that asset.
I knew that as an employee of this company that I would have the.
Support that I need, but also as the person leading this function, I would.
Have the investment from the executive team.
That the function deserves.
So something to think about when you're.
Potentially evaluating potential co founders or bosses. A second part of that.
Another thing that was really influential in making the decision to come on board.
And leave, like I said, a lovely.
Job in Executive Search was the fact.
That every one of our co founders.
Wanted to work through a value stock. From the beginning.
We wanted to make sure that the.
Values were important to every single person.
That we were actually aligned in what we were building.
These are our five values.
We value diversity, accountability, excellence, doing what.
Is right in progress.
We decided early on that these values would govern every decision that we would make that potentially could affect our consumers.
Our co workers or creators.
And that has been a huge asset to attracting and retaining talent.
But it's not just on the employee side. It's really been a differentiator when going.
Out to the content market and asking.
Partners to trust us and what we're.
Building and why it's going to be.
Different and to come on our platform.
This content that is your livelihood, a.
Lot of times it's your baby to.
Work with us exclusively six months before.
The product's even launched. So that was a big part of that. If you are considering co founding a company.
I urge you to go through this exercise very early on before you have problems.
It might not be that important, but.
When you start to scale and you're.
Starting to make quick judgment calls, having these to fall back on really has.
Been huge for us.
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