Jared GoetzZenpire · CEO & Founder at Zendrop

Leadership isn’t about titles it’s about who you bring in and why.

16 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, the speaker outlines his leadership philosophy centered on recruiting the best talent rather than focusing on titles. He recounts founding a fully distributed company in 2011, initially operating via Skype before transitioning to Zoom, which he credits with the company’s survival. By refusing to limit hiring to any geographic region, he positioned the organization to tap into a global talent pool, gaining a significant competitive advantage by accessing skilled individuals who would otherwise be unavailable in a single location.

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Do you have any leadership philosophy? For example, how did you recruit great people to your company? That was the most important thing that I did back in 2011 when we started the company was actually fairly unique, which is a completely distributed company that we actually started the company on Skype. That worked for about a week until it didn't. Thank God Zoom came out when it did because I'm not sure the company would have survived. What I wanted to do was find the very best talent and not be limited by geography. That led you to basically the world is your oyster in terms of hiring. That gave us an enormous advantage of finding people that we would have never been able require, who are just localized to one specific location.