A brief excerpt from a Jason M. Lemkin YouTube video advising founders and hiring managers to "hire only A players." It cites a lecture by one of the Stripe brothers and emphasizes the need to be willing to take substantially longer to recruit the right person, continuing searches rather than settling for B players.
I heard one of the Stripe brothers make this point in a lecture, which is, you know, the takeaway is don't hire B players, just hire A players. And people kind of know that. But the point he made was to actually be able to do that in your company, you have to be okay with taking it, taking way longer to get the next person than you want to take. And the real test to are you going to be committed to hiring an A team? Is in that moment being like, we're still going. We just got to keep bringing people in until I find somebody that I really believe is.
