Home-grown = ½ Won

OfBusiness has always relied on young men, either freshmen from campuses or very early into their careers. It reflects our prioritization – hunger over experience, questioning over going to someone for answers, learning over unlearning, risking failing big over moderately succeeding, running overthinking. A strategy that has worked for us at scale as our young men have matured to be formidable business leaders, countless of them.

As we grew, we have felt the inkling to hire from industry to add experience onto our fiery young leaders. In areas that are technical, that are new. In areas, we believe that learning can be short-circuited.

Those trials have had mixed success, though. The biggest challenge that we have faced is in recruitment itself. First, few have the fire burning still to step out of their comfort zone. And a lot of who do take a while to decide. Some, unfortunately, are flippant even after accepting. (Integration, though, to a young organization like ours, has never been a
challenge.)

All this while, our biggest learning has always been never to rely on the incoming for any business outcomes whatsoever. We still believe that the battle’s half won with home-grown but keep looking for the elusive away-grown to help us win the other half.

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