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How They Hire

by The Big Search

Who a company hires decides how fast it grows and how far. Founder podcasts cover fundraising, product and GTM. Hiring gets a question at the end, if at all.So we bring a camera to the offices of top tech founders and CEOs and give them the mic: the mission, the culture they built, how they hire, and the hiring playbook they use themselves. No filters.

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Episodes

  1. How the CEO of the World’s Leading Fibre Optic Sensing Company Approaches Talent & Hiring

    For this episode, we sat down with Paul Heiden, CEO of Optics11. Optics11 builds fibre optic sensing technology for early warning systems. The company operates out of the Netherlands, and its mission is to protect sea lanes, offshore infrastructure, and energy supply from disruption before it...

  2. The bunq Way: How a €1.6B European Neobank Hires Top-Tier Talent

    For this episode, we sat down with Joe Wilson, Chief Evangelist at bunq and former COO and Board Member. Joe began his career building and leading startups before spending a decade in leadership roles at Microsoft. He later ran his own fund backing Series A sustainability companies across Europe....

  3. How This AI Founder Hires Top-Tier Talent After Raising $23M at Series A

    For this episode, we sat down with Albert Malikov, CEO and founder of Stacks. Albert founded Stacks in 2024 after a decade building fintech products. He worked at Plaid (US banking infrastructure) and at Uber, where he was part of the Uber Money team. Stacks works with enterprise companies on…

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  4. How This Fintech Founder Who Launched His Company at 19 Years Old Hires Top-Tier Talent

    For this episode, we sat down with Max Linden, CEO & Founder of lemon.markets. Max founded lemon.markets in 2020 at 19 years old, while studying economics at the University of Münster. lemon.markets operates as a Brokerage-as-a-Service platform that offers Banks, Asset Managers and Fintechs…

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  5. How a Serial Founder Who Scaled Europe's Largest Insurtech to €800M+ ARR Hires Top-Tier Talent

    For our second episode, we met Julian Teicke. He started at Groupon/Rocket Internet, where he helped launch multiple countries across Europe. His first company was DeinDeal, which he scaled as COO to €100M+ ARR before exiting in 2015. After that, he founded The Delta as a launchpad for new...

  6. How a Serial Founder Who Raised $170M at Series A Hires Top-Tier Talent

    Max began his career in finance, spending a few years in investment banks, before joining Rocket Internet. In 2015, he founded Foodfox – a food delivery platform – which was later acquired by Yandex. He stayed on as CEO of Yandex.Eats, formerly Foodfox, and scaled it to become the market leader –...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Who a company hires decides how fast it grows and how far. Founder podcasts cover fundraising, product and GTM. Hiring gets a question at the end, if at all.So we bring a camera to the offices of top tech founders and CEOs and give them the mic: the mission, the culture they built, how they hire, and the hiring playbook they use themselves. No filters.

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The Big Search

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Who a company hires decides how fast it grows and how far. Founder podcasts cover fundraising, product and GTM. Hiring gets a question at the end, if at all.So we bring a camera to the offices of top tech founders and CEOs and give them the mic: the mission, the culture they built, how they hire,...

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