#134: This Hiring Secret Can Help You Find Your Next VP

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode of Seeking Wisdom, DC and DG are joined by special guest and Drift co-founder and CTO, Elias Torres. Together, they talk through how to hire people who can go from individual contributor to VP. It comes down to 4 things. 1) Come from humble beginnings. You need to be hungry. 2) Ability to get sh*t done. Do the work. 3) The "It" factor. Uncommon charisma and presence. 4) Humility. Be Ego-free. Stay humble as you grow in your career. They break it all down in this episode of Seeking Wisdom. Before you go leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review and share the pod with your friends! Be sure to check out more insights on the Drift blog at drift.com/blog and find us on Twitter @davegerhardt, @dcancel, @eliast and @seekingwisdomio. In This Episode: 0:53 - The Culture Code 1:38 - Consistency with Seeking Wisdom is coming. 2:30 - The team discusses their trips to Europe. 5:00 - Hiring Lessons from Elias Torres 6:12 - The value of coming from humble beginnings 7:04 - The ability to get sh*t done 7:17 - The “It” factor 8:15 - Ego-free individuals that have humility 9:12 - Elias Torres talks about his time starting at Drift. 10:42 - Hiring for Marketing 11:58 - DC’s Marketing background 14:00 - Looking beyond the profile for hiring 14:40 - Marketing’s need for someone who can grab your attention 17:50 - The dark ten years 19:00 - Do the work to find the right person. 19:27 - Put yourself in the right company. 20:30 - Read Blitzscaling 21:29 - Where would you find another DG? 23:50 - Be around people that push you. 24:55 - Recap Books mentioned in this episode: Blitzscaling: The Lightning-fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh and Bill Gates The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle

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0:00.0	Am I popping?
0:05.8	Is it good?
0:06.2	Is it hot?
0:07.1	You're good.
0:07.8	You're here.
0:08.7	Make your yellow.
0:09.2	Make a yellow.
0:09.8	You're here.
0:10.5	DC.
0:11.4	See that?
0:12.2	You'd make a great authentic NBA coach the sneaker collection would finally be justified.
0:17.6	I don't know if you've seen this, but do me a favor and Google the New York Knicks coach, David Fisdale. A lot of people are congratulating D.C. on the Knicks first win last night. I look like, I kind of look like that's my doppelganger, David Fisdale. Fizz, you can call me Fizz from now on? He looks exactly like. Can you imagine this he has a basketball coach?
0:37.9	No.
0:38.2	I am one right now.
0:39.5	He would.
0:40.1	These are the two players.
0:41.0	That could be a whole separate podcast.
0:43.7	Yeah.
0:44.0	If you read the culture code, whose voice is that?
0:47.1	It talks about that leaders and coaches are two different personas.
0:51.5	You're not a coach.
0:52.8	I am a coach.
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