Jen Grant
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I think that's a great, great point.
It's hard.
I would say not for the faint of heart.
If you don't know someone in India already who has been there, done that, it's not a good strategy.
Even though you look at the financing and you're like, wow, that would be great.
Because it turns out it's actually really hard to hire in India.
It takes three months.
So even when someone accepts a job offer in India, they have to stay in their current job for three months.
And very often,
they shop your offer.
So they accept your offer, they shop it, they may find a better offer.
And three months later, when you're dying for this headcount to start, they're like, just kidding.
I'm going somewhere else.
So it's very painful and hard.
And what makes it work is those anchor people.
So in our case, our founder, our CTO is originally from India.
He spends, you know,
maybe six months, three months, a year out there.
He's wonderfully charismatic.
So he goes out and everybody gets excited and pumped up.