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At Uber, I scaled my team from 0→50 people <1yr. Now I help Seed & Series A+ startup founders scale their teams. Here's how ↓ There are a lot of systems that go into hiring and scaling an A-player team at that speed. I also learned how valuable it is to work with an in-house recruiter. I saw the same thing at Industrious where I helped launch 10 locations, hired the teams at each new office, and grew my team to 30 people. I couldn't have done it without the same systems or our recruiter. And again at Veho, I helped their team grow 4X from 70 to 285 employees and increased their candidate pipeline +500% in 6 months. We built the systems to scale from the ground up. That's also where I created my "rent-a-recruiter" model that we use at Venture Scaler today. But before I did all that—10 years ago—my first startup failed... I made so many mistakes as a first-time founder. I didn’t know how to build and scale my team. I never hired, trained or managed anyone before. I wish I had someone like ‘Present Jake’ to go back and show ‘Past Jake’ how to avoid all those mistakes. That’s why I started Venture Scaler and my free Scale Smarter Newsletter: 📈 𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥 📈 I developed a new model to help founders with hiring by letting them “rent a recruiter” hourly (no commissions). We provide access to world-class recruiters that have worked at high-growth companies like Uber, Spotify, Lime, Amazon and Dropbox. Our clients have seen some impressive results: → 𝟰𝘅 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗲: UpSmith was searching for their first sales hire for 5 months, and we closed the stalled search in 5 weeks. → 𝟵𝟬% 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀: Honey Homes’ cost per hire was 1/10th of what a traditional agency would have charged them in commissions. → 𝟲𝘅 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀: Veho saw a +495% increase in inbound applicants in 6 months after they started working with us. Need hiring help? DM me! Learn more: https://venturescaler.com 🧠 𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗘 𝗦𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥 🧠 Your people are the most important part of your startup. But building and scaling teams as you grow is hard work. Each issue I share ways to scale your teams (and yourself) — all stuff I learned working at high-growth startups like Uber and Veho. Try it free: https://jakehuber.com ===== P.S. Outside of work and scaling startups: 👯‍♀️ I’m a girl dad x2 🏕 A backpacker/camper 🎭 Trained at UCB in improv comedy 💍 Secretly proposed to my wife using Uber: https://youtu.be/uRi_B5CxWZ8