Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDwarkesh Patel: belief
25 Mar 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton
“I got close to 1,000 applications across the different rounds of publicizing it that I did. And a lot of, I think, really cool people applied.”
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- Dwarkesh Patel
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- 25 Mar 2025
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…Yeah, I mean, I think this is the number one issue that startup CEOs have. Hiring. It's just relentlessly the number one. Yeah. And the thing I was stunned with is how it didn't seem like my platform helped that much. I got close to 1,000 applications across the different rounds of publicizing it that I did. And a lot of, I think, really cool people applied. But the person that I ended up hiring was somebody who was just a reference, like a mutual friend kind of thing. And a couple of other top contenders were also this way. So it's weird. Like, the best people in the world don't want to apply, at least to things like this and you just gotta seek them out. Even if you think you have a public platform or something. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, the job might just be so out of distribution from anything else that people would do.…
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