A Contrarian’s Guide to Hiring - by Mario Gabriele
🌟 Hey there! This is a subscriber-only edition of our premium newsletter designed to make you a better investor and technologist. Members get access to the strategies, tactics, and wisdom of exceptional investors and founders. In our case study on Hummingbird Ventures, we shared the story of Peak Games, a Turkish gaming startup acquired by Zynga in 2020 for $1.8 billion. The Peak story is full of compelling aspects, including its brushes with failure, impressive growth, and lasting impact on the domestic startup scene. However, it’s the hiring practices of its founder, Sidar Sahin, that I find myself returning to most often: he held job interviews at midnight. Why? Because he believed it was an efficient way of finding people motivated by the opportunity and challenges of building a high-growth startup. If a candidate wasn’t willing to jump on a call at 12 PM, they probably weren’t suited to Peak’s fast-paced environment. Though an extreme example, Peak’s strategy illustrates the crea
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