@entrepreneursanctuary: Steve Jobs — 1995, The Lost Interview, filmed for the PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds — said the most important job of someone in his position was recruiting. 🧠 Not product. Not strategy. Not vision. Recruiting. He didn't want seasoned professionals. He wanted people who had the latest understanding of where technology was at the tips of their fingers, right now — and who were passionate about bringing it to lots of people. Insanely great. And then he described what happens when you get ten of them together: 🔥 It becomes self-policing. Because A players don't want to work with B players. They've rarely had the chance to work with people at their level — and when they finally do, they protect it. The group decides who gets in. With more precision than any hiring process ever could. Elsewhere in the same interview — the part most people don't quote — he said the difference between average and the best in software is 50-to-1. Maybe 100-to-1. 💡 Almost nothing in life has that gap. But technology does. Which means one wrong hire into a great team can dilute everything. And one right hire into a mediocre team can't fix it. The composition of the group is the most leveraged variable available to anyone building something. Jobs knew this in 1995. It's why Apple became what it became when he returned in 1997. Recruiting was the job. Everything else followed from it. 👉 @entrepreneursanctuary #SteveJobs #Apple #Entrepreneurship #Leadership #Hiring
