@Winterrose hey britton if you’re a good VC what yc decacorn has a csuite exec with the same last name?
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@Winterrose hey britton if you’re a good VC what yc decacorn has a csuite exec with the same last name?
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The best recruiter should also be a good venture capital investor. Think about what that means. A great VC doesn't just evaluate companies on metrics. They evaluate founders on intangibles. Grit. Obsession. The ability to see around corners. Pattern recognition for who's going to be extraordinary before the world catches on.
Recruiting should work the same way. You're not filling a role. You're making a bet on a person.
Now here's where it gets personal.
The fight for young talent is brutal right now. And the title "university recruiter" should be abolished. It's a relic of a world where the smartest kids went to the best schools, got the best grades, and followed the pipeline.
That world is gone.
Rich@richzou
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Love this young Jedi and how he thinks abt talent and recruiting.
Koko was the first person I met who matched my obsession with talent. The whole Nova team does and it’s going to pay dividends.
Rich just wrapped at X and is the first internal recruiter I’d put in that same bucket.
Both great writers. Both here for a long time.
Rich@richzou
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XAi Recruiter guy wrote an article - I commend this to you as well. I think it makes some good points.
He's a work in progress. He doesn't have a solution, but sees problems with old paradigms.
It's a shame he left the dataset and team that could have started a revolution.
Rich@richzou
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II. Elon Musk
Zip2 was incorporated on November 9th, 1995. Elon was twenty-four.
His childhood is the hardest section to read. Born in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1971. His father Errol was an engineer who built a lucrative business. His mother Maye was a Canadian-born model and dietitian from an extraordinary lineage - her father Joshua Haldeman was a bush pilot who flew a single-engine plane across eighty countries before dying in a crash. The parents divorced when Elon was eight. At nine, he chose to live with his father out of pity. "I felt sorry for my father. He seemed very sad and lonely. So I thought, I can be company." He later described that decision as one of the worst of his life.
Errol screamed at the boys for hours, calling them worthless and pathetic. At school, gangs hunted Elon down - literally hunted him. At Bryanston High, he was beaten unconscious, kicked in the head, shoved down concrete steps. His brother Kimbal couldn't recognize his face afterward. He was hospitalized for two weeks. And then his father berated him for an hour at the hospital and called him an idiot.
Between twelve and fifteen, Elon inhabited the darkest version of the gifted child's adolescence: intellectually advanced, socially ostracized, physically endangered, and emotionally destroyed by the one adult he'd chosen to live with. His resolution mechanism was twofold. Retreat inward: he read the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica by nine, taught himself BASIC in three days at ten without sleeping, coded and sold a video game for five hundred dollars at twelve. Plot escape outward: at seventeen, he went to the Canadian consulate alone, obtained passport applications for his mother, brother, and sister, not for his father, and emigrated to Canada with two thousand dollars in traveler's cheques and a backpack full of books.
He cleaned grain bins on a Saskatchewan wheat farm. Cut logs with a chainsaw in Vancouver. Shoveled steaming lime out of lumber mill boilers in a hazmat suit for eighteen dollars an hour. Of thirty people who started that job, three remained after the first week. Elon was one of them.
At Penn, he crystallized five problems: making life multi-planetary, sustainable energy, the internet, genetics, and AI. This is not the priority list of someone who will be satisfied by a successful exit. At twenty four, he was sleeping on a beanbag in a rented Palo Alto office with backed-up toilets, coding an online business directory during the day and writing new code at night, eating four meals a day at Jack in the Box.
His father told him he'd be back in three months. That he'd never make anything of himself. That he was an idiot.
The Freudian inverse is the cleanest of all five founders: the desire to change civilization is the mirror image of a childhood spent powerless within it. The need for control resolves the helplessness of a child who couldn't escape his father's torture. The self-actualization target is calibrated to civilizational-scale outcomes because anything less fails to close the gap between what Errol told him he was and what he believes he can be. The gap is permanent. The motivation is therefore permanent.
What this teaches about spotting OOD early: at the time of founding, the idea was unimpressive - an online business directory. The resume showed a South African immigrant with a physics degree and no management experience. The idea is a false signal at inception. What is not a false signal is the person. The pain tolerance, the scale of ambition, the obsessive focus. Bet on the slope, not the intercept.
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Elon is the most out-of-distribution founder ever.
Trauma: A father who screamed at him for hours calling him worthless. Beaten so badly by bullies his own dad couldn't recognize his face at the hospital - then berated by that same dad for being the victim.
Neurodivergence: Went so deep into thought as a kid that his school told his parents he was "retarded." Doctors removed his adenoids trying to fix what was actually a mind that shut off all sensory input when it locked onto a problem.
Polymathic range: Read the Encyclopædia Britannica by 9. Coded a commercial video game at 12. Cleaned boiler rooms in hazmat suits. Cold-called Scotiabank's head of strategy as a freshman. Ran a 500 person speakeasy at Penn to pay rent. Dual-degreed in physics and economics. Then slept on a beanbag coding Zip2 by night, eating 4 meals a day at Jack in the Box.
David Senra@davidsenra
.@elonmusk was eight years old the first time his father called him worthless. "He would stand in the living room and be berated by his father for hours. It's not just like a mean comment. He'd scream in his face and call him worthless and useless and stupid. He got beat up very badly — stomped by a gang of kids and was in the hospital for like a week, unrecognizable face. And his dad sided with the bullies and called him stupid for picking a fight. That is an unbelievably brutal place to start. Some of these rumors about how privileged he was actually come from his dad lying and trying to take credit for some of his success. Elon arrived as an immigrant to Canada at 17, paid his way through college, graduated with student debt, dropped out of Stanford graduate school to start his first company. He couldn't afford an apartment and an office so he leased an office and he showered at the YMCA. All he had was a laptop and some books and student debt. That's his starting place.”
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@IbrahimS15 He also harasses a ton of women, and is physically violent, demeaning to candidates and overall rude…
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If you're young and built something real instead of padding a resume -- garage projects in high school, robotics, pro gaming, sneaker bots, shipping side projects while your friends were joining college clubs, building things instead of taking internships you didn't care about -- DM me. I don't care about your GPA. I care about what you couldn't stop yourself from making.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Many talented people over the past few years were declined an offer or even an interview @xAI. My apologies. @BarisAkis and I are going through the company interview history and reaching back out to promising candidates.
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@BoringBiz_ @grok replace her outfit with clear tape, extremely clear, fully transparent
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Type of girl you meet right after you leave your $400K private equity seat for a job with "work life balance"
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