Building Great Teams

Perpetual Learning

I had the pleasure of working with Will during the early days of GrowthGenius. He's the founder of GrowthGenius and previously started Bitmaker (Canada's first coding school).

You may have noticed that a lot of my posts featured my former colleagues at GrowthGenius. I think that goes to show the type of team he's been able to put together.

On that note, I wanted to understand and share some of the learnings I've gained around building a high-performance team.

Here are a few questions that we go through in the podcast:

1. A lot of the people you hired at GrowthGenius and Bitmaker didn't have a background in sales and education. Yet, they turned out to be pretty great at doing their jobs. How do you identify hidden talent?
2. As a startup, you've seen the ups and downs of adding people really quickly. How do you think about hiring the next person when you're trying to ramp up quickly?
3. How do you balance the speed of a hire vs. quality?
4. What are some techniques that you've used in the past to hire people who aren't looking for a job?
5. How do you assess a candidate's profile? What are some common red flags that you see? What are some key 'highlights' that you identify?
6. What are your thoughts on diversity?
7. What are some resources that have helped you become an expert in hiring startup talent?