“So I'll put, hey, and also put, I love you at the end of, at the end of your resume. So I know you read the job post.”
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Eric Coffey
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“So I'll put, hey, and also put, I love you at the end of, at the end of your resume. So I know you read the job post.”
“I just called people up and said, I'm not asking for a job. I just want to understand what your career journey has been… It took me about eight months.”
“My very, very first opportunity when I won my first subcontract was through Indeed. The person had posted a job request on Indeed, and I answered it, and I got the job.”
“If this person applied for this job today, knowing everything I know now, would I hire them? And if the answer's no, then you know what the decision is that you need to make.”
“We have usually hundreds of terabytes of hard drives on a job site now… using computer vision to turn it into an ongoing data stream, not just of pixels, but of events, activities”
“In fact, 75.5% of former interns who convert to full-time jobs are still with their employer after one year, compared with just 51.5% of other hires.”
“We tested, OK, let's have humans provide inputs upfront on some context elements that the AI cannot have access to. And then let's let the AI do the job that we got the best results”
“I took it full-time after saving $100,000 at age 25, which was the origin story of her first 100K. I was on Good Morning America, quit my job three weeks later”
“I used to tell people, my job is to sit in meetings 12 hours a day, five days a week. I worked on the weekend too. So I worked 63 hours a week.”
“You've got to put a cover crop out there that has grass in it. So whether it's wheat, it's rye, it's oats, it's barley, any of them are going to do that job.”
“If I were building an agent from scratch, I wouldn't start by saying, let's remember everything. I would start with the job the agent is expected to perform, and I would work backwards from that.”
“The two-thirds, or maybe 70%, either founded their business or bought one and grew it later in their careers.”
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