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Shiv is a former Head of Talent for high growth companies such as Multiverse and Assembly Global. She now helps founders at companies like Metaverse and Learnably hire the top 1% of talent into their high growth environments.

In this episode Shiv debunks what A-Players actually means. How to find, assess and hire top performers who thrive in a high growth environment. And some of the core differences in hiring for start-ups vs scale-ups.

Chapters

00:00 Growth Stage Hiring

02:28 Top Talent in High Growth Environments

04:55 Attracting Talent to Early Stage Businesses

06:14 Finding and Assessing Candidates

09:17 Differences in Hiring for Seed vs Series C

11:46 Why Does it Matter?

14:10 Who Can We Learn From?

Connect with Shiv: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivbrodie/

Connect with Joe: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-atkinson1/

Episode Links:

Joe’s Website: https://gopurpl.io/

Shiv’s Website: https://found-global.co/

Key Concepts & Tools Mentioned in This Video:

• Growth-stage hiring

• Hypergrowth startups

• Identifying top talent / “A-players”

• Force multipliers in teams

• High-growth environment challenges

• Career acceleration vs. steady-state roles

• The “give and get” Venn diagram for talent attraction

• Rate of learning and growth mentality

• Winning trajectory and pattern of achievement

• Coachability (early stage vs. scale-up context)

• Critical thinking at pace

• Resilience in ambiguous environments

• Additive, challenging interview processes

• Retention challenges in startups

• Top-of-funnel ratios

Screening for soft skills vs. hard skills

Pass-through rates and data-driven hiring

Talent density in organizations (e.g., PayPal Mafia, Revolut)

Peer learning and micro-communities for TA leaders