Keith RaboisManaging Director, Khosla Ventures

Keith Rabois about Silicon Valley Open Doors Conference SVOD2017

Name: Keith Rabois about Silicon Valley Open Doors Conference SVOD2017
Uploaded: 2017-06-01T23:04:49+00:00
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Description: In a brief interview at the Silicon Valley Open Doors (SWAT) 2017 conference, Keith Rabois, a general partner at Khosla Ventures, discusses his…

1 Jun 2017 · 1 min

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In a brief interview at the Silicon Valley Open Doors (SWAT) 2017 conference, Keith Rabois, a general partner at Khosla Ventures, discusses his background and the focus of his firm on breakthrough technology investments. He emphasizes that hiring is the top concern for founders, especially in hot markets, and warns against the common mistake of only targeting obvious, “central casting” candidates. Instead, he advocates for uncovering undiscovered talent—individuals that larger companies overlook or cannot assess effectively—highlighting the need for early-stage companies to broaden their talent search to succeed.

Hi everyone, I'm here at SWAT 2017 with Keith Rabois, the investment partner of Khosla Ventures. Keith, thank you very much for being here with us.
Pleasure to be here.
Could you tell us a few words about yourself and what brought you here?
So yeah, I'm a general partner at Khosla Ventures. We invest in breakthrough technology and I've been here before to speak and was impressed with the audience, the quality of entrepreneurs, the energy in the room. So I decided to come back and speak again. This time we about hiring, which is the number one question founders have is how they're going to recruit new people.
And when you spoke, you mentioned one of the last questions that people were asked was the one thing that the audience should go away with, what is the one major mistake that people do when hiring?
I think the most important thing when you're hiring is to discover, undiscovered talent. I think it's very difficult to go after the central casting perfect candidate when you're an early stage company in a very hot market like we're seeing right now. You have to find people that large companies don't know how to assess and they don't know how to assess them well.
Well, thank you very much for being here with us.
Thank you.
I hope you'll come back again.
No, I definitely will. Thank you. Fantastic.