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SaaStr 019: David Cancel on Hiring People Not Skills, The Importance Of Investing In Relationships and Being Scrappy
Following our meeting at SaaStr Annual 2016, I am thrilled to welcome David Cancel. Now David really is a serial entrepreneur having founded 5 companies, with the last, Performable, being acquired by Hubspot, resulting in his taking up the position as Chief Product Officer at Hubspot. Now David is the CEO @ Drift. Drift allows you to talk to your website visitors and customers in real time. David is a master when it comes to hiring, company culture creation and maintenance and team building and we dig into all that in today’s episode, as well as:
- Why David’s golden rule to recruiting is hiring people not skills?
- Why is cultural fit so important for future employees? How can you test for it in an interview? Can you hire a team of all A team players without having insane competition and friction?
- What does David mean when he says it is important for candidates to be scrappy? What signals are there that the person is an insane hustler?
- What questions does David pose to get the candidate out of the standard interview style answering? How does david push them out of their comfort zone?
- Why does David believe it is crucial to never hire PMs who have done it before? What is the benefits of this?
- How does David view success? What commonalities does David se in thementiality fo those that have and have not been successful?
In a round we call the 60 Second Saastr, we also hear:
- Must read books for startup CEOs?
- What are the 3 biggest lessons you learnt the hard way?
- What is David’s approach to learning?
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