Today's moment episode features Evan Schiegel, the CEO and co-founder of Snapchat, and he has a

tremendous emphasis on hiring people and culture, which is one of the most important things in business.

The reality of running a small business is that switching off is never really an option.

Even when you try, the ideas, the excitement and all the responsibility is always there.

And because you're always switched on, it's only fair that your hiring partner should be too. LinkedIn Jobs, who are the sponsor of

this moment's episode, has been that hiring partner for me and for years, because it's always

working away in the background. My team can post our jobs for free, share them with our networks

and reach top talent all in the same place.

So let's get into today's conversation.

Let's go back to those early days. You're in that office.

When you think about the people in that photo that were part of the first sort of 20,

how important in hindsight is hiring?

I think it's everything. I think it's everything.

And these were really, really just wonderful people.

I mean, still, you know, in many cases, close friends.

And I think interesting, there was a moment I realized David, Daniel, Bobby, and a couple

other of our original engineers, all of them, you know,

original engineers were musicians as well. And it was really interesting this moment, you know,

because the early folks who were working on the engineering side of Snap were unbelievably

creative and unbelievably talented. And it was an interesting, like, aha moment,

because I think oftentimes people think of the disciplines as separate. Like, oh, there's

designers, and then over there, there's engineers. And I think so much of the magic, actually,

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