The Importance of Hiring & First Impressions w/ Our New President | Operator Pod Ep 1
Build with Leila Hormozi
Leila Hormozi
5 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to BUILD The Operator, hosted by Leila Hormozi and her co-host, Sharran Srivatsaa, President of Acquisition.com. This show isn’t about strategy in the clouds. It’s about execution on the ground.
In this episode, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) and Sharran (@Sharran) break down what it actually takes to build a high-performing company culture inside Acquisition.com and beyond. From how they approach hiring and team reviews, to why writing memos is non-negotiable, to spotting and correcting ego-driven behavior in leadership, this is the real operational playbook they use every day.
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| 0:00.0 | What was different than what you expected in the first 60 days being here? |
| 0:05.0 | What's up guys? Today, I have Sharon here. So we're just going to be talking about what we're dealing with and just honestly our unfiltered thoughts on |
| 0:12.0 | on what we work on together every day. What was different than what you expected in the first 60 days being here? |
| 0:19.0 | I expected everybody to be jammed. |
| 0:22.0 | Everyone would be working hard. |
| 0:24.1 | Everyone to have packed calendars. |
| 0:25.7 | And it is 100% true. |
| 0:27.3 | Everyone's jam. |
| 0:28.4 | Everyone's working hard. |
| 0:29.4 | Everyone has packed calendars. |
| 0:33.0 | And the crazy part is it took me like three days. And then I think my calendar has been, |
| 0:35.7 | your discount is packed. |
| 0:37.4 | Yeah. So, which I think is great has been, this calendar is packed. Yeah. |
| 0:37.8 | So, which I think is great because it shows how much opportunity that we have overall. |
| 0:44.6 | I'm really surprised by the competence to humility ratio. |
| 0:50.6 | So let me explain, right? |
| 0:51.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.3 | So when I was at Goldman Sachs, it was extremely competent people. |
| 0:55.5 | Yeah. Super smart, super smart, super show. And the only way you win when you're with an individual |
| 1:01.7 | contributor environment, when it's super smart, super smart, super sharp people, that it's okay to have an ego. |
| 1:07.6 | It's okay to be an ass. It's okay. Well, they're like, well, of course, he's super smart, so he deserves it. Yeah. But finding a combination of extremely bright, |
| 1:17.2 | competent, smart people, but also having a really tight kind of humility component to that, |
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