

Charles Dray
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@charleshdray
Helping where I can 🫡 | Ex- Founder & CEO at Resonance Security, Ex- BD at Halborn, Citi, JPMorgan, Moodys, & SMBC












What do billionaires optimise for when hiring? @adcock_brett founder of Figure AI discussed what he looks for in a hire on the WTF Online Podcast: "I think the conventional wisdom is to go out and hire somebody really experienced, that makes you feel really good, from a really good background, at a successful company. And I found that playbook is just complete crap. Throw that right out the door. Even now, Figure has gotten to a point where we have these big shots knocking on our door wanting to come work here, from big companies and wherever else. But it's just not the right approach. If you look at every generational company, it's not like they went out and picked the VP here and the VP here and the VP here and put it together. It's like the opposite of what Meta is doing right now. Look at Meta's superintelligence lab. It's like putting 15 Tom Bradys together and making that work. It's just immediately going to collapse. It's not going to work. My view is you just need to find people that really care. That's the core axiom of what I look for in talent."














