The notion that diversity in an early team is important or good is completely wrong. You should try to make the early team as non-diverse as possible. — Max Levchin Max Levchin, a founder of PayPal, preaches that mythos to young hopefuls who want to follow his success. His thinking is actually more subtle than that quote, but subtlety and introspection are not common traits among young people out to make a lot of money in a short period of time. Encouragement from billionaire heroes leads to even more insularity. Because the talent market is tight, that insularity presents a problem. Its hard to find good people to hire. All the Stanford graduates have offers from multiple companies and theres no time to develop talent. On the other hand, so many nice-seeming candidates seem to fail the interview process for trivial mistakes that fall under the catch-all category of culture fit.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:10:15 +0000
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