Short advice from a creator about hiring: prioritize intrapreneurs—people who want to work inside a team—rather than entrepreneurs who prefer to run their own businesses. The speaker explains entrepreneurs often don’t work well within teams, resist listening to others, and tend to leave to start their own ventures, so hiring intrapreneurs improves team cohesion and long-term retention.
So recently I've had a couple people ask me about how to hire the right team members, how to attract the right team members, what they should be looking for. And I kind of give the same advice. You really want to make sure that you're finding people who are intrapreneurs, not entrepreneurs. Now, what do I mean by that? So when I say intrapreneurs, I mean people who want to work inside of a team, not people who want to run their own business. If you look for people that are entrepreneurs and you hire entrepreneurs, you're going to run into a lot of issues, because they always want to start their own thing. They don't work well within inside of a team, and ultimately they're going to leave to do their own thing, and they don't want to listen to anybody else. So you want to find people who are intrapreneurs, not entrepreneurs.
