The v C or Venta Capitalist

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Steven paul joined greylock as an ontputer ind residence. He was scouting for his next big idea and the people who could pull it off. Paul met one of these fabled v cs at greylock named bill keiser. Steve hafner already had a job in travel, but orbits had been struggling. So they came up with the idea of doing a pure search engine where we sell anything.

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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