Hire for what they've done, not where they've been

You should hire people who have already done the thing you need to have done next. Start with, it's 12 months later, you hired the person, they started today, 12 months have gone by, you're clinking champagne because of how great it's been. What's changed about the business?

The lazy ones think it's just gambling like, oh cool, they worked at Meta and Salesforce already, so hire them, just gambling.

If you were an outstanding performer in Job A, it is a high likelihood that in job B, someone associated with you in job A is going to pull you into the next thing.

You need to bring in actual talent. We and I will be nothing if we didn't have actual AI scientists and leaders. It's the only way we can be successful here.