Y Combinator Founders' Guide to Hiring Hacks

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Y Combinator is an incubator for founders who want to reshape the future. Paul Graham, president of YC, has a simple mantra: Love is better than like. How can you hack your biases to discover your next great hire? We'll be back in a moment with Jean Lee from Capital One Business.

The true seed of scale is customer love, which you can’t buy, hack, or game. Sam Altman, former president of Y Combinator, scaled countless start-ups by focusing on this one idea: Finding 100 users who love you is better than 1 million who kinda like you. As CEO of OpenAI, Sam leads the creation of genuinely useful AI products. He shares timeless insights in his interview from 2018 on how to build on the love of passionate customers to create world-shifting tools.

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