#396: How To Get Hired In Bitcoin with Bitcoin Talent Co.
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Join Marty has he sits down with Andy Thompson and Michael Tanguma from Bitcoin Talent Co. to discuss the process of finding talented individuals to work for bitcoin companies.
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6:52 - Andy's background
11:00 - Bitcoin's intellectual capital bottleneck
14:55 - Reaching out for talent
20:14 - Understanding bitcoiners offers an edge
23:06 - Education
27:42 - Recruiters are the first laid off
29:46 - Recruiting pains in rapidly growing companies
32:09 - Back to education
36:25 - Crediting contributors
40:24 - Addressing concerns of bitcoin being too niche
44:15 - Everyone's going to need bitcoin knowledge
49:10 - BTCo just launched, what's next?
51:22 - The design bounty
52:56 - Comparison to jobs boards and general recruitment industry
59:38 - Common blunders in recruiting
1:05:25 - HEY YOU! Get a bitcoin job!
1:07:01 - Final thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | So, Fris, it's your boy Marty here to introduce this rip of TFTC. |
| 0:08.9 | RIP 396, we're getting close to 400. |
| 0:11.6 | Logan, what are we going to do at 400? |
| 0:15.3 | Pop the champagne. |
| 0:16.5 | We're going to pop some champagne? |
| 0:18.8 | All right. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm going to get a bottle. |
| 0:21.8 | Pop some champagne at 400. |
| 0:23.8 | It should be in a couple weeks. |
| 0:25.5 | 400 episodes. |
| 0:26.6 | Well, only 396. |
| 0:29.0 | I have to make it. |
| 0:30.8 | Three four more. |
| 0:31.4 | Hard to believe. |
| 0:32.2 | Five years, 400 rips coming up. |
| 0:35.4 | This one was a very, I don't want to say different. It was more like business |
| 0:42.5 | focused. Sat down with Andy and Michael co-founders, two or three co-founders of the Bitcoin |
| 0:48.6 | Talent Co. A new recruiting firm looking to pair talent with companies in the space. They've highlighted this, |
| 0:57.9 | highlighted and identified and are looking to fill this gap that exist between companies that |
| 1:03.7 | desperately need good talent to build out the Bitcoin standard via their companies and the talent |
| 1:09.9 | that exist out there that can actually do it. |
| 1:12.4 | So Bitcoin Talent Co is here to fill that gap. |
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