CEO Diaries: The Brutal Mistake That Almost Crippled Snapchat!

Today's Moment episode features Evan Spiegel, the CEO and co founder of Snapchat, and he has a tremendous emphasis on hiring people and culture, which is one of the most important things in business. The reality of running a small business is that switching off is never really an option. Even when you try, the ideas, the excitement and all the responsibility is always there. And because you're always switched on, it's only fair that your hiring partner should be too. LinkedIn Jobs, who are the sponsor of this moment's episode, has been that hiring partner for me and for years, because it's always working away in the background. My team can post our jobs for free, share them with our networks, and reach top talent all in the same place. So let's get into today's conversation. Let's go back to the um those early days. You're in that office.

When you think about the people in that photo that were part of the first order twenty. How important in hindsight is hiring? I think it's everything. I think it's everything. And These

were really, really just wonderful. People. I mean still, you know. uh in many cases close friends. And I think interesting there was a moment I realized um David, Daniel, Bobby, and a couple other of our original engineer all of them uh, you know, original engineers were musicians as well.

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