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Marc Andreessen’s blog entry on How to hire the best people you’ve ever worked with

June 12, 2007 on 2:25 am | In Management |

I have been wanting to update the links field and write this entry for a couple of days past.

Marc Andreessen is the co-creater of Netscape (which erm, not sure what happened to it). Anyway, he’s got this blog on now at blog.pmarca.com which is great.

His entry on “How to hire the best people you’ve ever worked with” is informative and witty.

Just to summarise, Marc’s opinion is that Drive, Curiosity and Ethics make up the Criteria to hire. Sounds good.

My opinion…That’s passion for you. Passion for life, passion for doing what you do. Personally, I think Passion is the most important factor.

One quote-worthy para from his entry:

realize that you’re usually doing the person you’re firing a favor — you’re releasing them from a role where they aren’t going to succeed or get promoted or be valued, and you’re giving them the opportunity to find a better role in a different company where they very well might be an incredible star

read the full entry here.