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Rob Walling

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Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

There are a lot of folks who manage people and motivate people

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

better than me and they should be doing it.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

And so that's the way to think about it is, do you need and do you have the budget?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

Then another question I received complimented my essay, robwalling.com slash essays, if you want to subscribe and get those emails.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

And the question, well, it's two questions.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

Where do you find, where did you find is the question.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

Where did you find your owner level thinkers?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

And how long did it take you to find them and integrate them into your company?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

So I'm going to generalize this.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

Where do you find folks who are thinking at this level?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

Obviously, if you have an incredible network, this is where you should build your network now.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

your audience.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

If you have an incredible network or an audience for that matter, you look there first because warm introductions, even second or third hand, are going to be some of the best folks that you work with.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

But here's the thing.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

Every time we've hired, we have created a job description and we have posted it all over the internet.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

We've hired remote first recruiting to help us promote the job and then to screen candidates so we're not doing all the work.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

And I definitely recommend it.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

It's Dan and Ian's remote first recruiting.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

A bunch of tiny seed companies use them and tiny seed and microconf have used them for almost every hire we have ever done since they've existed.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

But that's where we start.