John Collison

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6,048 appearances 22 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 5 Feb

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Like you interviewed the first few thousand of SpaceX employees and lots of other companies.

Well yes, but what what doesn't scale?

Me.

I mean sure.

I mean that, but like what are you looking for?

It literally is not enough hours in the day, it's impossible.

But but um what are you looking for that's someone else who's good at interviewing and hiring people?

What's the genus claw?

Right.

But in the early days, what was it thus?

that that you were looking for that couldn't be delegated in those interviews?

I feel like

Part of your method is that, you know, there was this meme in the media a few years back about Tesla being a revolving door of uh executive talent.

Whereas actually I think when you look at it, Tesla's had a very consistent and internally promoted executive bench over the past few years.

And then at SpaceX, you have all these folks like Mark Jankosa and Steve Davis and Steve Davis runs a sporting company this year.

No, and now, yeah, yeah, but uh uh Bill Riley and folks like that.

And it feels like part of has worked well is having very capable technical deputies.

What do all of those people do?

have in common.

I'm trying to get work done here.

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