John Collison Quotes

I've always been really internally focused. I tend to focus on hiring - ensuring that every person we hire is both a really good fit and really good - and also that everything we put out to our users is very high-quality.

I always make sure I hire people smarter than me.

As founder of Eventbrite, I've interviewed almost every single person we've hired.

AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.

One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.

Hiring great people is almost the most important thing you can do as a leader because they enable you to scale, and they create better leverage for you and your time.

Actually, there is no more important task for a leader than to pick people. To make sure you have the very best people working for you.

I think I have a good eye for talent. I think I'm smart enough to figure out what the mission is and achieve it. I achieve it by hiring good people.

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company's culture and propel you forward.

Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

We are being super selective on who we bring in and really just trying to hire the very best.

We're really critical with the process of who we hire. But when you put great people in position, that's how you avoid any missteps.

The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they'll make you look good.

The first thing you always do is seek out the best people that you can find for your organization. If you find the best people, you can basically go anywhere you want to go because they will take you there.

If I'm an entrepreneur and I have an idea, and I don't have the development talent around me but I need to find a developer, I would do my selection just like I would with hiring an employee.

Managers live and die by their recruitment.

Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company.

Above all else, look around to employ the best talent you possibly can.

Building a great team is the lifeblood of any startup, and finding great talent is one of the hardest and costliest tasks any CEO will ever face.

We recruit for attitude and train for skill.

HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?

I always have an idea before we even start the movie because if you hire the wrong person, within a couple of days you're going to know that and you're going to be really panicked.

Recruiting is a core competency for any company. It should never be outsourced.