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[Internet Archive: “How to Hire the Best People” by Marc Andreessen]

There are a lot of great articles on the internet which early stage founders can read to improve their knowledge, today I’m sharing with some of you an old article published by Marc Andreeseen from 2007 - “How to Hire the Best People.”

This article is definitely not your usual “how to hire” article, in fact, it covers only 2 areas regarding hiring, but it brings incredible value and truth. Let’s begin with the Marc’s first area of interest:

To hire the best people, it’s about #Criteria: what to value when evaluating candidates.

Most startups make the mistake of copying how successful companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon hire, making their decision mostly based on intelligence, aka degrees and qualifications. But there are many other factors that contribute to outstanding employees, and these factors play a much bigger role than intelligence.

Much like Venture Capital investing, one of the most important factors we look for in a founder is their motivation, or as Marc calls it - #Drive. Hiring for drive rather than intelligence will bring much more to your startup, simply because driven people are self-motivated and motivating unmotivated people is not easy.

The next important criteria to hire for is #Curiosity, simply put - passion for their craft. Anyone who is passionate about what they do, will be eager to learn, read, practice, and continuously immerse themselves in the craft, stay current with the trend or perhaps ahead of the trend, passionate people simply do this because they love what they do.

“The easiest way to be driven is to be in a field that you love, and you'll automatically be curious.” If you are a founder, this is the type of people you want to hire. If you are an employee, find a field that you truly loves and finds interesting, then, staying driven and curious will be easy. Would you rather be skiing uphill or downhill? One is exciting and fun, and the other is simply impossible.

The last but certainly not the least, is #Ethics. This is a hard one to tell simply from an interview, so background checks are a must. Marc warns us heavily about people with bad ethics, much like unmotivated people, unethical people are very unlikely to change. Marc suggests picking a topic which you know really well and ask hard questions, when they lie about the answer rather than admitting they don’t know, you should avoid these liars with a ten-foot pole.

To hire the best people, it’s about #Process: the logistics of the hiring

I won’t go too deep into this part, you can read the original article for better details. But to summarize, write down your process and questions you’d like to ask during the interview. Having consistency helps you and your team to Iterate, and only by refining your process and questions you’ll get a better match between candidates and the position.

Marc also warn us about not paying enough attention to red flags during the interview or reference checks. People often downplay the answers they receive or signals during the interview. From Marc’s experience, these signals are usually right, so unless you are completely convinced, you shouldn’t hire them.

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It is not easy to get great talent, so once they come onboard, make sure to treat them well!! Getting great talent is one of the hardest part of being an early stage founder. I’ve only really covered 1/3 of the article, so I hope you’ll read the full text and take actions to improve your hiring process.

By Jack An
Analyst, AppWorks

Image by Katie White from Pixabay

I realized one thing after all the questions thrown at me by people about my stand and point of view about the upcoming elections. I realized that the people who go around making strong hateful remarks and casting doubts do not actually know what is going on. Even the very basic.

They do not actually know that the Pakatan Rakyat is a political coalition formed by the People's Justice Party (PKR), Democratic Action Party (DAP), and Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS). They thought that the opposition means only DAP. Nevermind.

They do not actually know who the leaders/candidates for Pakatan Rakyat are, and what qualifications and credentials they hold (which are so impressive if you actually find out!). They have no idea who Anwar actually was before this, let alone Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng, Wong Chen, Hannah Yeoh, Tony Pua, Yeo Bee Yin, all the highly-qualified, intelligent, and most of all, people who truly have a heart to see Change in Malaysia, people who actually have a solid plan on how to bring about that Change (go find out).

They do not know PR's manifesto. They have no idea what plans these candidates have to transform the country. They haven't heard their debates and speeches to know just how credible they are. They don't even know how they look like. They don't actually know anything! Yet, they're the ones who go around asking why we're so sure PR would make a good government.

They also do not know that it is very very unlikely for Hudud to be implemented, because as long as the parliament does not have 2/3 majority to pass the bill, it will never happen. Umno will not support it, DAP will not support it. Half of PAS will not support it. PKR will not support it. So why worry? This is what our current government wants to do- to spread fear with this issue. So do up your research before fearing and spreading fear.

My advice to you is, please go do a bit of homework before deciding who you should vote for. And do yourselves a favor by at least knowing the basic facts about what's going on before questioning and challenging people who know their stand. It's embarrassing.

I don't support a person/party baselessly. I do my least bit of research, even that little bit helps me decide. What about you? Have you?

Only 4 days to go, guys. Don't be lazy.

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