Hello! So this is happening later today. Going to be chatting with Chandra @chandrarsrikant on all things talent & startups. A quick thread - preview of whats to come
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As a founder, you spend 75% of your time building teams, hiring, building the kind of org that will help you scale the business. It was performance review season & every single startup group on whatsapp was on fire. Everyone's thinking about the future of talent / teams in India
Hiring & org building problems range from massively lopsided demand/supply to salary expectations of youngsters 2 years out of college = to that of 10-15 year experienced teams to skill gaps & a lot more
3 things we've used as guiding principles in this journey building MSD - a set of 3Hs to make it simple.
We hire for Hunger - for ambition, growth, learning. We explore how candidates deal with chaos, how they optimize for growth & constant learning, what drives them & more.
We hire for Hunger - for ambition, growth, learning. We explore how candidates deal with chaos, how they optimize for growth & constant learning, what drives them & more.
We hire for Hype. Now that's a controversial one but wait up. Nothing to do with introverts or extroverts.
Are you your team's hype crowd? There are those who suck energy from their teams endlessly and those who prop up & carry each other & hype each other for their growth.
Are you your team's hype crowd? There are those who suck energy from their teams endlessly and those who prop up & carry each other & hype each other for their growth.
We hire for Humility. We all discuss avoiding hires who are brilliant jerks. How someone processes feedback, how they optimize for learning, growing & sharing over being islands who win their own battles - often can tell whether you're hiring for humility or not.
Building a startup is not a founding team's job alone. It is about having the best teams who can build entire categories, businesses & create value - starting with absolutely nothing, out of thin air. As an ecosystem in India, we're barely getting started on this journey.
Miles to go before we learn how to make the most of talent in our country, how to shape them, to rid our gender / caste / race biases, our biases for non-IITs & take on creating an empowered, highly skilled talent pool & processes that get us ready for decades to come.
Last but not least, I have some strong opinions about the state of our educational systems & what they prepare our children for & what they don’t. I’ll save that for another day 😁
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