https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFpNVVtKnK4
I came across this post and as a budding entrepreneur I found it to be really helpful. It was a Q&A session with one and only Mark Zuckerberg (if you don’t know who that is, please go back to your cave).
When it comes to onboarding new employees with whom he’ll work directly, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg bears in mind a single guiding principle that he says has never steered him wrong.
“I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person,”
Zuckerberg told an audience gathered in Barcelona yesterday for the fourth installment of ‘Q&A with Mark,’ an ongoing series of town hall-style discussions.
While employers generally have more work to do than staffers to get it done, Zuckerberg says business owners should resist the urge to settle for lesser candidates in the name of manpower.
“Over the long term,” he said, “you’re only going to be better if you get someone really good.”
At the same time, Zuckerberg has always striven to keep a streamlined team and to do as much work as possible himself. Facebook serves over a billion people, for instance, but counts a team of fewer than 10,000.
“My first move when I was building Facebook wasn’t to hire a team of engineers to go build a product,” he explained. “I generally each step along the way have tried to do as much as I can myself.”
source:entrepreneur