Your Hiring Funnel is a Funnel of Doom. That’s Why You Keep Hiring Mediocre People.
Every founder claims talent is their top priority, yet most outsource hiring and rely on a standard recruiting funnel. This ‘funnel of doom’ filters for average, not excellence. In the AI era, the real scarcity isn’t AI researchers, but forward-deployed engineers with taste and product instinct. It’s time to stop worshiping big-company logos and start relentlessly pursuing the top 50 people for the job.