https://medium.com/eshares-blog/how-to-hire-34f4ded5f176#.ilxplhbdh

Below is an excerpt from a talk I gave at the eShares Town Hall in November 2015. I hope it is helpful to other CEOs struggling with hiring.

TLDR

Hiring Principles:

1. Hiring means we failed to execute and need help
2. Startup employee effectiveness follows a power law
3. False Positives are ok, False Negatives are not
4. Culture is defined by who we hire

Hiring Heuristics:

1. Hire for Strength vs Lack of Weakness
2. Hire for Trajectory vs Experience
3. Hire Doers vs Tellers
4. Hire Learners vs Experts
5. Hire Different vs Similar
6. Always pass on ego

Hi everyone. As you know, I have opened 27 new headcount for department heads to fill by end of year. If they succeed our headcount will be 74 in January. Of our 74 employees, 37% will have been at eShares less than three months and 79% less than one year.

Many of you will be interviewing and hiring over the next couple of months. How do we hire quickly and create a better company (and culture) than we have today? That is the challenge we face now. To that end, I’d like to offer you a set of hiring principles and heuristics to guide your decisions.