Recruiting strangers to join your technology startup
8 min readJul 9, 2018
Startups are hard. Finding people who want to work in them is easy. Finding people who are capable of working in them isn’t.
Between 2010 and 2015 I built and lead the operations and support functions of a FinTech startup until it was acquired for £105 million. I interviewed hundreds of candidates to join a small and fast moving team in a high intensity company. Of those…