There's probably a way to ask this politely, but I'll just ask bluntly to save time and confusion...
Did you think you could change the way people hired overnight?
There probably is a way to do what you set out to do, but it seemed obvious to me from the moment you announced it would take years of slogging and building a track record to change such ingrained processes at companies.
Revolutions on that scale are never going to happen in a few months. The reason I thought you guys had a shot was that you'd be stubborn enouh to stick to it in the face of resistance.
Yes, I do think that it's possible. To get Google to do it? No. To get a bunch of smaller companies to do it? NCC is larger than most YC startups, and this is how we did recruiting there.
I have thoughts on how I'd do contingency recruiting differently if I had to do it over again, and I have thoughts on what I think a better model for this would be than trying to do contingency recruiting from day one.
What I don't want to do is write them up in HN comments that will further sap me of any will to do a real writeup.
Did you think you could change the way people hired overnight?
There probably is a way to do what you set out to do, but it seemed obvious to me from the moment you announced it would take years of slogging and building a track record to change such ingrained processes at companies.
Revolutions on that scale are never going to happen in a few months. The reason I thought you guys had a shot was that you'd be stubborn enouh to stick to it in the face of resistance.