Operators said

Hiring & team building

Ganesan probes what brought a founding team together because he believes the founders set the company's DNA and future hiring decisions. Listen

Ganesan asks why these particular people decided they should be the ones to build the company, and how they see each other's strengths and weaknesses. He treats the answers as a 'precog' for how the founders will make decisions and build the rest of the team.

“I think the company you build is a team you build. And so so much of the DNA of a company is set by its founding team.”

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