Andres, Chris, Genevieve and the Scout team launched their AI-infused recruiting service today. We have been using it in stealth mode at a number of portfolio companies to help them grow . The 20x cost savings makes a trial party painless, and the matching algorithm learns over time, with greater personalization.
Blog: medium.com/hire/https-medium-com-hirescout-right-person-r…
News: techcrunch.com/2017/02/21/scout-recruiting/
Trial: www.usescout.com
When I worked with Steve Jobs at NeXT, we spent a mind boggling among of time interviewing people and recruiting. At the time, I marveled that it seemed to take half of the time of the product marketing team. And in an interview with Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs shared his perspective:
“Assume you’re by yourself in a start-up and you want a partner. You’d take a lot of time finding the partner, right? He or she would be half of your company. Why should you take any less time finding a third of your company or a fourth of your company or a fifth of your company? When you’re in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10% of the company. So why wouldn’t you take as much time as necessary to find all the A-players? If three were not so great, why would you want a company where 30% of your people are not so great? A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does.”
Congrats to the founding team of greats: Genevieve Wolff Lydstone, Andres Blank and Chris Calmeyn.
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