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Learnings of a CEO: Matt Schulman, Pave, on Hiring
by Lindsay Amos10/17/2022
Pave Founder and CEO Matt Schulman has created one of the most comprehensive and thorough recruiting processes, which has made him one of the most successful recruiters in the YC community.
YC Founder Firesides: Gusto on building for new verticals
by Y Combinator8/15/2022
Today, more than 200,000 businesses use Gusto for payroll, employee benefits, talent management, and more. And with the recent addition of Gusto Embedded, developers now use Gusto’s APIs and pre-build UI flows to embed payroll, tax filing, and payments infrastructure into products.
Learnings of a CEO: Wade Foster, Zapier
by Lindsay Amos8/9/2022
Today, Zapier automates work by connecting with over 5,000 apps. The company has been profitable since 2014 and is valued at $5B – with 700 employees working remotely. Wade, Zapier CEO, shared his learnings growing into the role of a growth-stage CEO.
Learnings of a CEO: Max Rhodes, Faire
by Lindsay Amos7/20/2022
Outside of the YC community, little has been documented on best practices to be an effective CEO. We want to help founders everywhere scale and build enduring companies — and today, we’re launching a new series to do just that: Learnings of a CEO.
How Do You Measure Leadership?
by Ali Rowghani1/19/2017
Are you a good leader? How do you know?In a startup culture that is obsessed with management by metrics, many foundersstruggle to answer this critical question about themselves. It’s tempting tomeasure leaders simply by the success of their businesses. But even the mostsuccessful founders know how much timing and luck can be confounding factors inthis approach.