“He just went there and he just asked from the receptionist… those few minutes turned into six hours of interviews… By the end of the day, he had a job offer.”
Marc Stad · Buyers and Builders · Marc Stad: From $0 to $40 Billion (The Extraordinary Story of Dragoneer's Founder)
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Walked into TPG’s office unannounced, asked the receptionist for the recruiting head, pitched himself, and turned a brief chat into six hours of interviews that led to a job offer the same day
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