The First Ten People You Hire Are Your Cultural Co-Founders

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Paul was one of about a hundred programmers in a thousand prison company. He started to get curious about how the firm handled new hires. What paul observed in those interviews would become a central point of his hiring philosophy. Those first ten hires aren't just for your employees, they are your cultural co founders.

The more your business scales, the more tempting it is to delegate your company’s recruiting efforts. Resist that urge! You should always be recruiting. Featuring Paul English, co-founder of travel search platform Kayak, this episode guides us through five critical lessons for the hiring journey. English is passionate and relentless about the subject of recruiting – and the scale of the stakes: “The first 10 people you hire set the tone for the next thousand people you hire."

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