Further reading

The best online writing about startup hiring

• How to Hire, Henry Ward, Carta
• How to Hire, Sam Altman, OpenAI
• Gene Pool Engineering for Entrepreneurs, Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures
• Cult Creation, Steve Newcomb, Famous & Powerset
• Hiring, managing, promoting, and firing executives, Marc Andreessen, A16Z
• How to Become a Magnet for Talent and Assess Talent, Delian & Keith Rabois
• How to Interview an Executive, Delian & Keith Rabois
• Hitting the High Notes, Joel Spolsky, Stack Overflow & Trello

The best books about startup hiring and culture

• What You Do Is Who You AreBen Horowitz
• High Growth HandbookElad Gil
• No Rules RulesReed Hastings and Erin Meyer
• WhoGeoff Smart and Randy Street
• The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsBen Horowitz
• The Manager’s HandbookAlex MacCaw

The best videos about startup hiring and culture

• Building an Engineering Team
• Keith Rabois on How to Find and Grow Talent, Keith Rabois
• How to Scale: Lessons from Stripe CEO, Patrick Collison
• Lecture 2: Team and Execution, Sam Altman

Acknowledgements

Most of the ideas in this guide were inspired by the work of other founders and leaders: Auren Hoffman, Sam Altman, Henry Ward, Jason Lemkin, Erik Torenberg, Sahil Lavingia, Naval, Patty McCord, Jason Cohen, Steve Newcomb, Paul Graham, Gokul Rajaram, Joel Spolsky, Marc Andreessen, Keith Rabois, Delian, Gergely Orosz, Ammon Bartram, Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla, Lenny Rachitsky, Ben Horowitz, Mario Gabriele, Patrick Collison, Geoff Smart, Mark Roberge, Daniel Gross, Reed Hastings, Max Levchin, Elad Gil, Matt Mochary, Alex MacCaw, Brie Wolfson, Erez Druk, Brad Smart, Tony Fadell, Claire Hughes Johnson, Jason Fried, Aline Lerner, Brian Armstrong, Paras Chopra, Bill Carr and Colin Bryar.

Thank you to my beta readers: Johan Ferreira, Louw Hopley, Gareth Dwyer, Ben Blaine, Aretha Cooper, Hugo van Vuuren and Shai Unterslak.