Building Strong Teams

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You need two type of people: expansive and maybe a little but eg d d. And then you need someone who's very strung operationally. If i think about my criteria for hire when i meet people, the main rulers are just always be recruiting. It's banwirth, attitude, experience and lack of disfunctional behavior,. But banworth interesting forah banwith is someone that comes from an industry that i haven't been to or come from a different part of the world than mine.

Paul is the Founder and CTO of Lola.com, the easiest way for businesses to manage their employee travel. Previously, Paul was CTO of KAYAK, a travel company he co-founded in 2004, took public in 2012, and sold to Priceline in 2013. Paul is also the founder of GetHuman, a service created to give consumers excellent customer service at any company, Intermute, a security software company, and Boston Light, a small business ecommerce startup he sold to Intuit.

Paul is the subject of Tracy Kidder’s book A Truck Full of Money, published by Random House in September 2016.

You can read more about Paul at: paulenglish.com.

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