Chris Bakke of Laskie.co - How to fix your hiring process and more - The Michael Girdley Show Episode 33

The Michael Girdley Show

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Chris Bakke (@ChrisJBakke) to talk about why hiring is broken, good & bad ways to hire, LinkedIn vs. Twitter: content and audience differences, finding the balance between good content and shitposting on Twitter, www.laskie.com, and much more!

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Show Notes:

0:00 Intro and a word from Michael

1:28 Chris Bakke everyone!

3:22 How do we think about Twitter? What’s the balance between being real and shitposting?

8:13 What’s wrong with writing threads?

12:48 Why Chili’s is better than Olive Garden

15:55 Okey, let’s talk about Laskie: You’ve decided to go down the VC route, tell us how you think about that

20:00 The struggles of building a company in public

25:31 Investing vs operating as a daily job; how does it relate to creativity?

32:09 You’re going into the LinkedIn environment: What do you know that I don’t?

35:21 Does LinkedIn reflect sentiment as well as Twitter? What kind of content differences do you observe?

40:22 Hiring processes: The good, the bad and the ugly

45:34 Why do companies let HR own the hiring process?

49:31 CEOs should apply to their own open positions

51:41 What do you like about hiring and your job?

57:28 Laskie.com

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Links:

* www.laskie.com

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Past guests on The Michael Girdley Show include Jesse Tinsley, Rob LaBonne, Matthew Weidert, Craig Fuller, Sam Bacon, Cayse Llorens, and more.

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