Talent Density: a startup hiring guide
How to build startup teams from 0 to 100. 10 chapters, one page each, from 15 years of hiring hundreds of people.
Building teams is a foundational block of company building, but most founders lack robust mental models for thinking about their team. It doesn’t help that hiring advice often isn’t all that useful, and much of it is actively detrimental.
I’ve spent the last 15 years obsessively learning to build world-class startup teams. In that time, I’ve hired hundreds of people and fired a fair number too. Most recently, I’ve been co-founder of OfferZen, the largest tech talent marketplace in Africa. Every year we place more than 1,000 software engineers into companies like AWS, Miro and Virgin.
My goal is for this to eventually be the single best guide for building startup teams.
Philip JoubertAbout me
