How to hire – Sam Altman

Companies are a product of the team the founders build.

• In every aspect of the beginning, get your hands dirty.
• Look for smart, effective people.
• If you don’t learn anything in the interview, that’s bad. If you are bored in the interview, that’s really bad. A good interview should feel like a conversation, not questions and responses.
• Focus on the right ways to source candidates.
• Have a mission, sell them to your candidates.
• Have a set of cultural values you hire for
  • Diversity of opinions and certain characteristics (e.g. you want nerds and athletes both on the team) is good; diversity of values in a startup is bad
• It’s always worth spending time to think about the least amount of projects/work you can feasibly do, and then having as small a team as possible to do it.
  • Don’t hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

From: https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire