David Weisburd
speaker
10,136 appearances
69 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3d ago
David Weisburd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And as you progress and evolve as a CEO, you start to learn that some processes should be slow, like hiring.
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You can't speed run it.
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You can't say, that was such an excellent interview.
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Let's close them.
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Let's get him before he joins another company.
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You have to spend time with him or her over several months trying to de-risk that decision because it's one of these irreversible doors.
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And other things like a product component, you just go and ship.
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And learning how to dial the knobs on fast processes and slow processes is one of the most underrated aspects, I think, of being a CEO.
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implemented.
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Do you know how many interview processes Sergey Brenn and Larry Page were part of before they stopped being part of each one?
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I have no idea for them.
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The first twenty thousand hires, they signed off on every single process.
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Doesn't mean that they were the first interviewer, the second or third, but they personally signed off on every one of the first twenty thousand.
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They intuitively grasped how important and how upstream hiring was of everything.
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There was no
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had a couple of CEOs say that they know almost within two weeks whether they made the right hire.
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Is that something that you see?
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interesting models around this, Justin Kahn, when he started his first company after Twitch, his very first hire was a recruiter.
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Which is basically how do we lower the error rate on hiring other people?
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I thought it was one of the most interesting first principles ideas.
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