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Elad Gil: From Selling His First Company To Twitter To Becoming The Biggest Solo Venture Capitalist

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The Importance of Hiring Experienced People

Twitter went from like literally 90 employees to over 1,500 people in two years. The company ended up hiring a lot of really good people, but maybe too many people that were too junior for the roles they had. Twitter tended to select against what I call an alpha engineer, like an engineer who's super self-confident and know that they can do really strong work.

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