Karim Atiyeh
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One is I'm going to look for very spiky people in areas where I have asymmetric information.
We were recent college graduates.
In some way, we knew a lot about the people who had gone to the school that we had gone to or the schools that we had experience with.
So namely, yes, Harvard and MIT for Eric and I. And not only that, we knew about a lot of the hardest classes that students were taking.
So we could go and look at, let's say, a freshman in college and the classes they're taking and the level of
extreme talent in one area and recognize that very quickly.
So it was less about like, what is your total GPA and your total sum of experiences and other interviews you've done throughout your four years in college.
But I know that in year one of school, if you're taking that class and got a really good grade in that one class, it must mean that you are extremely talented at math or computer science, whatever it is.
So we're looking for these spikes like very, very early.
So a couple of ways that we're looking for extremes.
We're looking for freshmen where other companies were trying to hire juniors.
We're looking for people who had maybe taken and excelled in very specific classes.
And in my case, having gone to RSI and knowing how hard it was to get into RSI and the level of talent at RSI, I was looking for seeking programs like it that give you an early signal that someone was very spiky even before college in many ways.
One of the people we hired very early on at Ramp was Kevin Lee, who had interned with us at Paribus in January for one month.
Like not a lot of companies offer one month internships.
Had less than one year in college, but clearly even then looked incredibly spiky.
He had left high school early to prepare for the Informatics Olympiad.
he ended up finishing college in two and a half years and we met calvin very early on and built a very strong relationship so by the time that he was graduating we were actually starting ramp and he was one of our very first hires and to this day calvin i think has his hands in so many different things that ramp and has gone from being an engineer to being on the sales team for a bit to running our forward deployed engineering organization and while he's
incredibly spiky turned out to be also very versatile in the company and one of my favorite people to work with.
But that pattern certainly extended to a lot of the ways we've done recruiting early on.
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