Boris Valkov

So the three top principles that we have in our company are, one is team, product, and speed.

So what does that mean?

So from a team perspective,

It's Paramount.

It's everything that we built.

It's the biggest asset in the company.

We have the product, but the team is the biggest asset in the company.

And when I was at Facebook Meta, I had an open engineering position to hire an AI engineer.

And the standard process of hiring at Facebook is easy.

You go to the recruiters, you tell them what you need, and then in a couple of days, they come back with a list of 30 great candidates that you can choose from.

But instead of going to the easy path and easy process, I was thinking,

how do I hire the best person on the planet?

And I went to my team and I asked them, give me the top three people that you know in the world that can be the best fit for our open position.

And

Once I get all the names, I collected them and combined them in a list, which is a stack rank of the top people in the world.

So from there, my job was easy.

I started from the top.

I went to number one and almost hired, and I was able to hire number two for two weeks.

So hiring number two in the world in two weeks

And if I have followed the standard hiring process at Facebook, it will take me the same energy, the same amount of time, just the result would have been dramatically different.