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    Adam Wathan: how small startups hire employees (Tailwind CSS)

    Build Your SaaS · Jun 4, 2024 · 1 h 35 min
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    How do founders of small bootstrapped companies hire new employees? Adam Wathan got over 1600 people who applied for two new roles at Tailwind Labs (a small team of six people). They ended up hiring two people, but neither of them actually applied. This wasn't how Adam expected (or hoped) this process would go. There were lots of surprising takeaways and lessons learned from the whole…

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