How Founders Hire

Larry Warren
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How Founders Hire is a podcast about startup founders and the first people they hire. Host Larry Warren, a recruiter with 17 years of experience, talks with founders and CEOs about why they started, what the early days actually felt like, and what they learned about hiring, startup culture and building a team. These are honest conversations about the wins, the misses, and the lessons founders wish they'd known sooner.

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    Todd Smith (TAHO Labs): 'I Would Sacrifice Talent for Culture' | Hiring Your First Employees

    How do you hire your first employees at a startup? Todd Smith, co-founder and CEO of TAHO Labs, says he'd sacrifice talent and skills for culture fit, especially with your first hires. Before TAHO, Todd ran technical operations teams at Docker after helping Snapchat and Facebook build their infrastructure before they went public. Now he's building AI infrastructure software that helps companies get far more out of the computers that run AI. In this episode on startup hiring and company culture, we cover: The lonely first six months of starting a company, and who really shows up for youHiring your first employees and handing off work you used to do yourselfWhy "how" someone works matters more than "what" they deliverWhy TAHO publishes its culture deck, and why joining is a family decisionWhy to hire for high aptitude over a specific skill set for your first dozen hiresFind Todd and TAHO Labs at taholabs.com.

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How Founders Hire is a podcast about startup founders and the first people they hire. Host Larry Warren, a recruiter with 17 years of experience, talks with founders and CEOs about why they started, what the early days actually felt like, and what they learned about hiring, startup culture and building a team. These are honest conversations about the wins, the misses, and the lessons founders wish they'd known sooner.

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    Larry Warren
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