The best hires aren't looking for jobs
10 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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The best people aren't browsing job boards. Start with your biggest unsolved problem, then hunt globally for the one person who can own it. Convince them to come.

The best people aren't browsing job boards. Start with your biggest unsolved problem, then hunt globally for the one person who can own it. Convince them to come.
Being on the market is not a precondition for us trying to hire you. And in a lot of ways, the best way to hire is really just look at the biggest problems at the company that needs someone to own it or take it to the next level, find out of the total universe of people in the world who would be best, and then ruthlessly go after them and try to convince them to join. And so if that's your mindset, Really, the best recruiting work stream is not here are a bunch of resumes, read through them, help sort them. The most useful thing is here's an entire universe of potential people, help match that to this very concrete business problem or this very concrete role that we're recruiting for, and help me get in touch with them.

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