Cap Table Hiring Operations Reputation 
This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 18, 2024
You know what our incentives are and we care enough about our reputation within the ecosystem to not do anything too terrible—usually. I would e-mail Paul and Rony from Indeed regularly with feature ideas and get super frustrated that they implemented zero of them—especially in the face of stiff competition from Simply Hired.
Hunter Walker
DECEMBER 11, 2023
He’s founder and CEO of Greenhouse , a ‘hiring operating system’ for companies which spans recruiting and onboarding tools for enterprises and SMEs. HW: Greenhouse, which powers the hiring process from sourcing to onboarding for thousands of companies, will soon be a teenager, having been founded in 2012.
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View from Seed
MAY 29, 2019
This segment of the market is basically mirroring other segments of the venture ecosystem which has operated this way for some time. But taken to the extreme, you would have rounds with only one lead and almost no one else on the cap table. Repercussions for Investors. I think there are two big ones. Repercussions for Founders.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 21, 2010
I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? I’ve met several people from Cooley Godward who have stellar reputations in this category. I always try operate on the “Fixed Fee +&# arrangement. Here’s a hack for you.
Hunter Walker
JUNE 14, 2018
But Homebrew is founded upon the belief that we’ll put sweat and reputation behind your startup, not just a wire transfer, so to me it seems like a normal question to help understand if you need things that we can, or can’t, provide. Hiring, org structure, product development philosophies and so on.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 9, 2020
One by one the markets in which you operate shut down. And these are people that we spent so much time to hire. We went through hundreds of thousands of resumes to hire those 1,900 people and we do so much to bring them in and to have to say goodbye to them, I'd say that was the hardest part. Brian Chesky : Forever.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
Most startups operate close to themargin of failure, and the distraction of having to deal with clientscould be enough to put you over the edge. One of the dangers of taking investment from individual angels,rather than through an angel group or investment firm, is that theyhave less reputation to protect.
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