Founders

Hey founders, what do you do when someone promising emails you about a job, or you meet them IRL, but you aren't hiring at the moment? 

Does anyone maintain an effective talent radar in a way that's simple enough to actually stick to for stuff like this?

Founder @ roboagencies.com — helping people get products built 10X cheaper via AI superteams

Previously founder @withBackdrop (acquired by Seed Club)

When my founders were trying to warm me up they added me to the monthly investor update emails.

We spoke about once a month through brief interactions, mostly favours. They would ask me if I knew anyone for xyz, and I would back channel information about other investors through them. By the time I had gotten hired by them 4 months later I had referred three engineers to them and they had shared some inside info with me re: certain partners at VC funds I was interested in working at.

Ultimately the easy way is to ask for basic, table stakes favours to help build the relationship and trust. 

As a former tech recruiter I would just add every candidate on LinkedIn when it was a “not right now” and start interacting with their stuff when I began hiring for certain roles ;)

🕯️They/them. Scaled cos from 0-$300k in arr, 7-35 employees, 0-100k users. Now I make beautiful, functional, and ethically made candles at humankind.place

Yep that’s a great way to do it! LinkedIn is actually a fairly good solution for this