The war for talent could not be more brutal these days and I love solutions like the Future Founder Promise from GraphCDN and TurboRepo - it’s what makes the startup world go round and round!

GraphCDN ⚡️ @GraphCDN

We've started a list of startups offering the Future Founder Promise! 😍 Do you want to build your own startup eventually but aren't quite ready? Consider working at one of the companies! github.com/graphcdn/futur… 👈 You're a company with the promise? Add yourself to the list!

github.comGitHub - graphcdn/future-founder-promise: A list of startups that offer the Future Founder Promise to their employeesA list of startups that offer the Future Founder Promise to their employees - GitHub - graphcdn/future-founder-promise: A list of startups that offer the Future Founder Promise to their employees

Speaking of talent, Dipti Salopek, VP People at Snyk ( a portfolio co), shared her playbook for scaling your talent engine and published her Hypergrowth Playbook. I’ve seen Dipti firsthand help Snyk go from 100 to 700 people in two years with hires from all over the world and highly recommend learning from her experience. Here are 7 💎 to start as you go from startup to scaleup:

1. Don’t just recruit, build a recruiting engine
2. Keep raising the talent bar
3. Lean in to your culture
4. Create a learning organization
5. Adapt how you communicate
6. Strengthen your Core HR processes
7. Operate with Data

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