Talent Acquisition

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.

Anthropic’s Founder Is Worried You’re Only There for the Money. He Should Be.

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei is worried employees are joining for money, not mission. But his anxiety is really a confession: a mission that can’t survive a 50% salary bump isn’t a mission, it’s a marketing slogan. Every company pitches purpose to extract surplus value from workers. The real question is whether the work is meaningful enough to justify the discount.

Stop Making Candidates Apply. Let Them Just Exist.

The hiring process is broken on both sidesโ€”candidates hate applying, employers hate filtering. The solution isn’t better AI screening; it’s making the application disappear entirely. Somebodyhire.me uses SSO to create a passive talent pool where employers search, not candidates. This is the future of hiring: friction-free, serendipitous, and radically simple.