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May 2, 2021 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Everyone talks about how people become serial entrepreneurs because they have a "founder mentality" and only want to do that. That's *mostly* true.
But there's another reason no one ever talks about: it's really hard for founders to find a job!
Here's a short 🧵 on why:
2/ At the core is how fundamentally broken our standard hiring processes are.
As CEO, I knew it was suboptimal but the default approach seemed good enough for our needs. Now as an applicant, I can't ignore the problem: we screen for who we think *looks* like they can do the job.
