Raw talent and straight A's don't matter if someone isn't coachable. The speaker would hire someone with less knowledge who can learn over someone brilliant but rigid. Core values work best when they're specific enough to actually exclude people.
So we don't care how talented you are, if you've gotten straight A's, if you've done everything amazing, like that doesn't mean anything if you're not coachable and we can't like actually help you level up. I'd much rather have somebody who maybe doesn't know as much, but they're super coachable than somebody who's like the most amazing in their field, but uncoachable. Yeah. And I think that was another really important one for us. So you'll notice like all of our core values, we tried to make them in a way, it might've been Meta or Amazon that came up with this, that like Your core values have to be something that not everyone can agree with, or it's like not a core value, which I think is really important.
Paige of Behind Genius driving an AI electric train in St. Louis (Intramotev Visit)
