Lenny Rachitsky: uncertainty

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…What I also really liked is that there were tangible examples always of about what it meant to embody this core value in your day-to-day work, and so then it was very tangible for people versus just some overarching embrace the adventure, like what does that actually mean. Then just to make sure people get this point you made about this core value hiring team, which is really unique, I don't know if anyone else does this, is there's people trained to interview in core values and they were a specific volunteer team. That part of the interview process, one of these people came in and they interviewed for core values, which was meant to represent what the founders were looking for initially. I mean, it was also very telling how, I remember, it was an honor internally to be selected to be a core values interviewer in the first place. Most people, large companies are like, "I don't want to do any more interviewing. Oh my God, I'm in interviews all the time." Here, people were like, it was a sense of this emotional proud moment when you were basically given the keys and somebody said, "Hey, we actually think you would be fantastic at helping us think about how to make sure every single new hire embodies these core values." I think that was so powerful.…

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