Two surgeons apply to run your hospital's new department. One has perfect credentials but feels slippery. The other has a spotty resume but you'd trust them with your life. Who gets the job?
I hire the one I'd trust with my life — credentials are paper, character is what shows up when things go wrong.
At Y Combinator, I sat through thousands of interviews. After each one, the technical partners would turn to me and ask: "What does the Social Radar say?" That question decided who got funded. Not the idea. Not the résumé. The person.\n\nI ...