your top shelf guide to hiring in frontier tech.

the most successful founders I’ve worked with are excellent at two things: 1) momentum and 2) selling everything mentioned in QT is categorized under momentum, meanwhile everything else is a byproduct of sales. Recruiting is sales Raising capital is sales Product development is sales Marketing is sales
my job is primarily to get people excited employees investors customers users
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im heading out to SF next week for the rest of August to plant the flag, feel the energy, touch the culture, and meet the community. what i have to offer — a handful of exciting AI clients that i’m hiring for, a gang of high quality AI engineers that are open to work, a track record of success / doing right by people, a passion for building elite teams / careers, and a stack of talent engineering workflows that i am not gatekeeping. what i'm looking for — high quality builders, founders, and VCs that are working on interesting things in frontier tech. any intros, events, venues or even tips from people in my network would be greatly appreciated. 🤝
sup mutuals 🤝
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ironically, i've spoken to 4 candidates from coinbase this week — some of the best crypto candidates i've had in years, and they only want my AI jobs. no shocker there... just crazy to say out loud.
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This is the most layoffs I’ve seen in my 5 years of recruiting in crypto. Plenty of data points to this being the highest volume of layoffs we’ve ever seen as an industry.
Have you noticed more layoffs in your industry this year? 👇👀
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lil tip for ppl working in crypto applying to jobs ai: instead of a 'summary,' use this space instead for a 'mission statement.' it's an opportunity for you to share your motivation and alignment with this new career direction, and will frame the way the reader digests the rest of your CV.
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My 5th hire in the Hyperliquid eco this year! Growth hires at pre-seed startups are difficult. You need to find an individual who is deeply mission-aligned, has a specific skillset, yet is comfortable working across the GTM stack. As soon as I got off the call with @graphbluff, I knew I found a killer. He’s committed to the success of Hyperliquid and brought trading experience from his prev two roles. This search was challenging for a few reasons, but working with @s3ohi was a lot of fun. He knew what he was looking for, ran a tight process and moved quickly. If you aren’t familiar with @hyperlink_xyz yet, you soon will be. Excited to watch this team cook.
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anyone hiring forward deployed AI engineers in NYC? got a killer profile open to taking calls with interesting AI companies.
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truly a pleasure to sponsor this crew at the legendary Crypto Peaks link up 🎿🚀 much love to @LatticeVC and our co-sponsors.
Crypto Peaks VI in the Books. 👏Thank you to our partners 🦑 Co-Host - @krakenfx 🎧After Party - @UpTopSearch 🍻Après Ski - @Anchorage 🏔Peaks Lunch - @BitGo
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😳 we're hiring internally at @UpTopSearch ! TLDR: ideal would be someone with technical recruiting experience in crypto. definitely would be open to a web2 tech recruiter who understands crypto. might consider someone with outbound sales experience in crypto, but no recruiting experience. please read the job description before applying or reaching out 👇
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Offer received and accepted for this role earlier this month 🤝 We are still hiring junior to mid level BD and Sales killers for this team. If you have 1-3 years of Crypto/DeFi BD or Sales experience, I want to chat with you. DMs open or tag a friend
despite the market being cooked (and I think we go lower from here and see more layoffs)..... ....I'm hiring junior to mid level BD for a portfolio company. If you have: -a existing network in defi specifically -1 to 3 years of experience in sales/bd/growth -crypto native my DMs are open to you
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Between the bear market and the rise of AI, many startups will pivot or quietly shutdown. Some incredible people will be made redundant along the way. Amateur startups will dismiss candidates from failed startups. In reality, the coming months may offer one of the best talent pools in years.
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We're excited to introduce @JeffMarsilio as Founding Head of Commercial for Newton Protocol. Jeff co-founded @Niftys (acquired by @MoonPay), led enterprise licensing at the @NBA to drive 10x digital revenue growth, and served as CBO at @CommunityLabs (@Lightspeedvp, @BainCapCrypto). He brings his expertise driving institutional adoption of novel infrastructure while navigating complex regulatory environments. Now he's doing it for Newton. Welcome aboard!
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Reed Hastings (founder of Netflix) on why process kills talent
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Hiring is a huge area where tech's unnecessary excess comes through. When you use this many person hours to make a hire, at a certain point it becomes much cheaper to risk making a bad hire with a leaner process. The total comped hours used to make these hires over a month likely exceeded what the selected candidates will make in their first year of employment.
At @Dune we did 300 candidate interviews in March. A massive effort from our < 10 hiring managers. Here is some of the stuff we do to ensure we find exceptional candidates: - All interviews scored 1-4. Deliberately no "middle score". At least one interviewer needs to give a 4/4 and be a champion for the candidate. Straight 3's will not yield an offer. We are after exceptional people. We think of the Dune team as a pro sports team and if you want to win you need someone exceptional in every position. Good enough is not good enough, and if there is doubt there is no doubt. - We check for AI fluency. If you are not hands on AImaxxxing and exploring how AI changes your domain we won't hire you. - Me or Mats Olsen always do the last interview to ensure everyone candidate is exceptional and adhere to the Dune's values. We will absolutely disqualify technically exceptional people based on culture/values mismatch. If you don't want to work hard or have low integrity you simply can't join Dune. - We are absolutely uncompromising on comprehensive reference checks. This is incredibly important. Not just doing the checks but pushing hard, asking though questions and drill deep into any cracks. If anything seems fishy or off we run for the hills. We have several times dropped giving an offer to candidates we thought we would due to things feeling off with references. If this sounds like a system you would pass with flying colors we are hiring for backend/analytics/platform/data engineers, account executives and product marketing manager. Bonus points if you've worked with enterprise data products in the past. Link below, lfg!
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Founders are cashing out in a $5 billion dollar industry, while they employ people like you to execute their vision. You should walk into every job opportunity knowing EXACTLY how much you're worth. If you're thinking about taking a new job, make sure they PayUP 👇🏼👇🏼

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teams ghost for 3 weeks then wonder why pipeline is cooked. we've tracked this killing more deals than lowballs across 250+ placements — what's your ghosting tax rn.
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