Brendan Foody: belief

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…When you say high standards, is there something you could share that gives us an example of what you mean there? Because a lot of people think they have high standards and they don't. If you... are very patient. There's always some trade off between speed and quality when hiring. And I remember, especially for our first 10 people, we were just so patient and disciplined about finding some of the best people in the world. Like, you know, half of them are for our second employee, Sid, as an example, our second employee in the in the US, Sid, was previously the head of growth at scale. you know, who joined us when we were a seed stage company. Daniel, who joined us, was previously scaled two consumer apps to over 100,000 users and all sorts of just like extraordinary backgrounds of our first 10 hires. And I think that that initial talent density shaped so much of what the rest of the org looks like as you scale it up. I know you also have this perspective that people talk about waiting to hire timely slowly, but it's actually not necessarily the right advice. Talk about that.…

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