Winston Weinberg

They're just going to take it.

And it's very clear that Microsoft has actually won in a lot of areas because they've decided to partner with kind of everyone instead of saying, ah, no, brass tacks, we're going to be very tough on this.

With hiring, this is a huge mistake that people make, massive mistake.

If you want to hire somebody, hire them, whatever they want to be hired and put them in the position that they want.

If they're best in class, if you can't tell if they're best in class, it's a separate problem, but don't go back and forth.

Well, then you don't believe in that company.

That's not going to be a legendary category defining company.

100%.

It won't be.

I think one of the things that I've done wrong in the past is I think that I have thought that someone couldn't scale because they have bad communication skills.

And I've misread that.

And then I didn't realize how easy it would be for them to learn how to do it.

I think that sometimes because I feel like I do a lot of in-person interviews and a lot of those things, that sometimes I also end up making the mistake of reading too much on the surface and not going deep enough.

I think I've gotten better at it, but that's one of the things that I've done with hiring is I've fallen for the resume trap too.

Like I've definitely fallen for it.

And I think that's a huge mistake.

So it wasn't a cold call.

We cold emailed them.

And we cold emailed Sam and Jason Kwan.

What we had basically done was we went on r slash legal advice, which is basically like a subreddit for asking legal questions.