Episode 159: Henry Ward & Josh Merrill - CEO of eShares: How To Hire, Manage, & Lead

Henry Ward is the CEO of eShares. Josh Merrill leads product and Marketing at eShares

Hiring Principles:

Hiring means we failed to execute and need help

Startup employee effectiveness follows a power law

False Positives are okay, False Negatives are not

Culture is defined by who we hire

Hiring Heuristics:

Hire for Strength vs Lack of Weakness

Hire for Trajectory vs Experience

Hire Doers vs Tellers

Hire Learners vs Experts

Hire Different vs Similar

Always pass on ego

Episode 159: Henry Ward & Josh Merrill - CEO of eShares: How To Hire, Manage, & Lead

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“The success of a company is the sum of the people in it."

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

Patience, long term thinking, and understanding that your success will be determined by the people you surround yourself with will lead to sustained excellence
Product focused and understanding "The Artist's Dilemma"
The best produce it for themselves
How eShares was created
Why their partnership works so well
What Josh feels Henry doesn't do well (Interesting moment!)
Why don't more companies publicly share what they believe in?
eShares hiring process
Why you shouldn't hire someone because they are a "culture fit"
Why you shouldn't have performance plans -- Once you've deemed the person is not working, then fire them immediately
Hiring for trajectory vs. experience
How it's similar to the LA Rams drafting Jared Goff with their #1 pick... Being patient to develop him
How should you grade employees? Don't... Teach them to grade themselves. Don't give people a number grade -- "How am I doing?" "You're doing a 2."
How to fire someone:
- Give sincere explanation for why
- Don't make it one-sided
- Help them with what's next
Be intrigued about what you do -- "eShares is a learning experience for me. I'm doing things I've never done before"

“False positives are okay. False negatives are not."

Continue Learning:

Read his Henry's posts on Medium: medium.com/@henrysward
To Follow Henry on Twitter: @henrysward
To Follow Josh on Twitter: @josh_io
To Follow Me on Twitter: @RyanHawk12

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159: Henry Ward & Josh Merrill - CEO of eShares: How To Hire, Manage, & Lead

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