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  1. “In APAC, or even in America coming here everywhere, global everywhere, go to higher Higher search H-Y-R-E search.com show thank you for sharing so many tactical lessons with us. You did a great job on your first this week in startups experience. Let's give them a big round of applause. And let me say thank you to my team working really hard, Bianca, Lon, Ricky. I think that's everybody from my team who came. All of our mentors, Will Barnes, Amanda, such a great team here making this amazing experience. All of our partners at Jetro who have been working hard with us for months to bring this together and for the companies in our first cohort of founder university here in Japan do the work and work harder? That's my advice for you. Work harder. All right, we'll see you next time. Bye. Thank you.”

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  2. “And then the other thing I've told founders is well, if you're doing this for your family and you're going to create a better future for them, and they get to see their parent, their mother, their father, whoever it is, both working really hard and being productive in the world, that's what makes great adults out of those kids because they have a model. My father, my mother worked hard. They worked hard. They cared about us. I saw them on a Saturday. take care of us go to the office for two hours take a business call then cook us dinner wow they were hard working and there's a whole generation maybe who is less hardworking and resilient but if you teach them to be entrepreneurs and you teach them to be resilient you teach them to have a work ethic that's the most beautiful thing i think you can do for kids especially in the age of ai especially in an age where maybe their futures are uncertain all right listen if anybody's hiring”

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  3. “Well, this is another tip I have for you. It's not the quantity of time. It's the quality of the time. And so many parents are at the park with their kids and they're playing candy crush or they're texting their friends or in the group chat. And really, it's, can you put this away and can you be present? I can tell you just 30 minutes present with the child doing an activity or going skiing for two hours, any of that just really being present. Man, it really matters, I think.”

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  4. “It really is interesting. Somebody told me when I was talking to somebody about parenting and they had particularly great kids that had come out really well. And I said, what's the secret? And he said, oh, do you know how kids spell love? And I said, no, tell me, because I know it's not L-O-V either. Some insight here. And he said, T-I-M-E. And so, yeah, don't cry everybody. But that's how kids spell love. Now, if you're talking about a family and a team and you're building a team, the founder, the most precious resource they have is time and spending that time is how you show love. It's how you show respect, right? And in an adult context, it would be more like respect and honor.”

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  5. “What are some of the most intelligent tactical things you've seen a founder do to recruit talent? Oh, yeah. Any weird anecdote that you can come up with, yeah.”

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  6. “Well, it kind of matters if you are not consistent, you're not attractive, you're not thoughtful during the recruiting process, a really high-end candidate's going to say, well, what is it going to be like when I come work for you? You're going to be even less responsive. You're going to give me even less attention. You're going to be, because now I'm in the building, you're going to be on to the next one. So you do want to feel special if you're making that big change.”

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  7. “To get started. That's pipe drive.com twist. Right, we're back twist in Tokyo. We're here for Founder University. One of the great joys of my life is helping people on the margins. My team and I at the Launch Fund just helping founders start their companies. We're doing it in the US. We're doing it in Saudi Arabia and Riyadh with Sanabel and we're doing it here in Tokyo with Jetro, an incredible organization that really supports founders and does so many different accelerators and programs and we're the latest to join the movement here in Tokyo in helping founders. If you want to learn more, go to Tokyo.launch.co. We're going to be doing this again, but literally this is the first week that we're doing our 10-week program. What do we do in Founder University? We help founders get product market fit, build out their team, understand their first couple of customers. It's generally companies in year zero or year one. And we invest in some of them. And we build a deep relationship with them. Although we don't have to, sometimes they don't need money. They're doing so well. Okay, so you started a company higher, worked for Travis.”

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  8. “You can't have an effective sales team without an effective and above all organized sales process. Trust me on this one. I've seen thousands of startups basically fail because they had messy, chaotic systems in the sales department. It's one of the biggest red flags there is this week in startups. It's about helping founders. So I want to tell you about the tool we use to stay organized here on this week in startups. It's called Pipe Drive. They bring your entire sales process together in one clear, easy to understand and centralized space, giving you just one place to check for all the customers in deal information you need. I'm a big fan of data, right? Especially here at this week in startups. So teams that use PipeDrive close an average of three times more deals every month. It could be you. Join over 100,000 companies using Pipe Drive. No credit card or payment is needed. Just go to PipeDrive.com.”

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  9. “Insane, and that was going to cost $200,000 to relevel it because they were in the Hollywood Hills, and he solved that problem for them. So it's very interesting. When we get back from this quick break, I want to hear all about your startup, how you're doing it, how you make money. When we get back on this week in startups.”

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  10. “But Ovitz, if it was Ovitz, might have been another person. Had dinner with the director and his wife and went to the house, and the driveway was ripped up and was kind of damaged. And he got to the house. He was talking to the wife, and he noticed the driveway. And he said, oh, this is incredible house she got and whatever. And what's your plan for it? They had just got in this house. And she's like, yeah, you know, but I got to redo this driveway in LA. It's notorious for being very expensive. And so Ovitz told her, I have these great contractors and they're going to do a project for my house, but I'm going to, I can push mine back six months. I'm going to get these guys to come and fix the driveway for you. And I'll pay for it if you can get him to do the movie. And she said, excuse me, you're doing this movie with Dustin Hoffman and just close the deal right there. And it was all because this driveway was making his spouse.”

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  11. “This great story I heard, just as an aside, there was this famous studio head. I think it was Mike Ovitz. And Mike Ovitz wanted this director to do the film Tootsie with Dustin Hoffman in it. But the director he wanted didn't like Dustin Hoffman”

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  12. “Yeah, so and but what percentage more than what they're currently making kind of wakes somebody up and they say take the call”

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  13. “Right. And what is the number that makes a top performer leave in terms of if you were to just pick a percentage increase in their total comp, what would the total percentage where they take the phone call, they listen to you, they engage? What's the number?”

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  14. “So those folks, you're going to need to find their friends to get the entree. You're going to have to really understand them and listen to them and figure out what it is that drives them. Typically, those high performers are already going to be in the top compensation bracket. So if it's not comp. It's what”

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  15. “Best advice on shaking, talent loose who are in an existing job that they like or love even. They're at a company, and this is, I think, really something you have to think about because somebody who's on the job market and who doesn't have a job, man, that says something, right? That's, I think you would say what's left in the bushel at the orchard or whatever, at the farmer's market. And then there's the people who are thinking of leaving. They're putting out feelers. And then there's the people who are not even looking. But maybe, you know, they would consider it, but probably not. So I think it's pretty obvious how you get the first two. They're curious or they're desperate. But what about this third group who they're not in the market? They don't even have a LinkedIn or their LinkedIn isn't updated. How do you get those, the really great, great talented individuals who can change a company forever?”

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  16. “Similar to an engineer, what do you think of these AI interviewers? People are using AI interviewers. I've been given this pitch by a number of different startups. Hey, we can use AI to interview somebody and people are complaining now, at least in the United States, that they've sent 200 resumes, done 100 AI interviews. It's not even a human on the call, and they feel a little bit insulted by that, that a human didn't even take the time to consider them. And then they never hear back from the robot.”

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  17. “Because the original recruiters, after 20 years in Silicon Valley or here, they would be like, you know, I think you would fit the culture of these other companies. Do you want me to try to get you an interview there? But in reality, AI does that so much better because it's going to be able to look under in so many different corners and find trends that maybe the recruiter wanted, couldn't find.”

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  18. “CRM, sorry. So, yeah, customer relationship management. I have CMS on my brain constantly because I was in the content business for so long.”

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  19. “The job descriptions coming out of AI are better than anything you could write, I think. You tell me if I'm wrong. And then I think sorting through them. So I'll ask here, has anybody here used AI to sort through applications? Raise your hand if you're using AI to sort through applications. One, two, yeah. So that's going to be the three. That's going to be the next trend because that's what I'm hearing from sophisticated founders is they put all the resumes into notebook LM or whatever and say which ones are best suited for this job and why. So tell me a little bit about AI first in the hiring process. So I think”

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  20. “First order that's C-A-L-D-E-R-A-L-A-B. comstera lab dot com slash twist. Back here for twist in Tokyo. Thank you. Wow So let's talk about AI. It's obviously impacting every job. Startups are resource constraints. So startups use AI tools much more often than regular companies because they're always trying to do more with less. They're always very inquisitive and interested and curious about tools. It's kind of their advantage, right? But then there's also AI tools that are coming out to help people sort. So I was at a dinner in Singapore last year and I asked 12 founders how many people have hired an outside HR person or recruiter to write a job description. I'll ask it here. How many people have hired an HR person to write a job description in the last six months? Nobody. How many people have used ChatGPT or another large language model to write a job description? Raise your hand. Hi. Okay. It's literally almost everybody. And if we were sitting here 20 years ago, the first thing you did was hire an HR person, a talent person, part-time, fractional, and they wrote your job description.”

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  22. “Most investors are a little concerned. It's a pink or a red flag. Especially in an accelerator, how many people here are solo founders? Any solo founders? One, two, three. So four. So about four out of 30 are, and for our program here at Founder University, we always pick multiples. We don't want solo co-founders unless they are extremely, extremely good at recruiting and talent. So we filter for that. So for the four people, you're good at finding talent, I assume. You're terrible at it or you're good at it? Okay, got it. Okay, we'll work with you. All right, when we get back from this quick break, I want to ask you about the impact of AI on hiring and which positions you think will be gone or will be very different in the future and then how it's actually impacting the hiring process when we get back on this weekend startups.”

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  23. “And this is why the vesting schedule for the founders is important. And a lot of people don't even have a vesting schedule until they get to the seed round. Or they're Series A, and then the VC say, Hey, listen, we've seen this movie before. We need to everybody to be on a vesting schedule to make sure this goes tightly. And if you don't... Have a co founder. And you can't find a co-founder, what does that say about the founder in mind?”

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  24. “And how do you filter for trust? What are the techniques that you would advise? Friend who's starting, like, here's a way to figure out if you can really trust that person to be that fourth first outside hire.”

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  25. “About hiring your first or second or third, those first two or three positions after the co-founders, let's say you have a three-person team, you're all co-founders, you have equity. How do you go about hiring those first two or three people and the big C word culture? How do you make sure that their culture fits and you're starting off correctly? What's the best practice for you?”

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  26. “Things that you get, and that might correlate with the type of employee you want or you don't want if you're a founder and you've got an at scale business, you might be looking for stability the same way employees want and you just want the operation in another city, in another country to work in a tight fashion and maybe you're not looking to push people to do all the innovation in that region, you just want them to operate. The business really well.”

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  27. “Can you hire people as consultants for some period of time put a limit on the length of the relationship and do people use that technique for both parties? To try before you buy kind of situation, to date before you get married.”

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  28. “Well, there's one of this thing. Not relating to any of your prior work experience, but what would the things that people would talk about if we were having drinks with a bunch of HR people in Japan? What would they say are the backdoor ways to do this?”

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  29. “How did you deal with mistakes? Because when you're hiring, you have a couple of days, couple of weeks to make a decision, and you're going to make mistakes. What was his instruction and what have you learned that you've carried forward in terms of when you make a mistake, you realize you hired the wrong person getting them out?”

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  30. “So they've done their research when they're in that process. They have ideas. They're super pumped to get the job and they're following up with you, et cetera.”

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  31. “And how did you test for that? Like, maybe some people are performative. And they're extroverts, and they would do very well on a super pumped kind of interview over video or even in person, but that might be performative, not reality when they get on the job. And somebody who's introverted. Who do you know that they're super pumped? How do you filter for something weird like that?”

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  32. “What did you learn from him in terms of recruiting? Did he have some other unique ideas about having people who were super pumped? Was either you're super pumped or you're not here kind of a situation?”

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  33. “So, you really had to see how much they wanted it. And if they were a nine to five or maybe a big company person that would not be appealing to them. It's fascinating. Yeah.”

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  34. “Everything's a test, and it's a little bit of spec work. You're doing some work that you're not being compensated for, right? They wouldn't give them $100 to do this.”

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  35. “To get your company set up the right way. Right, we're back with this week in startups live from Jetro in Tokyo with our guest today, Sho Takai. Differences in the customer base and running a company here, what are the things that when Uber or Cloud Kitchens operated here worked exactly the same as they would in the US and what was challenging or different for cultural, regulatory, any reasons, talent reasons.”

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  37. “Doesn't matter. They don't know that. All right. When we get back from this important. Break, a little pause for the cause. I want to talk to you about the differences in building a company here versus the US and the lessons from the US that work here and the ones that don't when we get back on this weekend startups.”

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  38. “h-y-re.com you can get it for 200 we could talk about the negotiation so yeah what you do is you buy we'll do a little mini tactical talk here you buy like four variants of it you tell the person who has it hey listen i have these four variants i have the trademark we don't need it it would obviously be nice to have our company's growing we're venture backed we'd love to buy from you for 200 plus a kicker if we raise our next round and we raise over 3 million, we'll give you the other another 100K and then if we ever go public, we'll give you 250k, so we'll give you 600k total or whatever it is, a little bit more than yours, but you'll get to have a little upside there, or 1% of the company, something like that. And that can sometimes shake it loose. It depends on you're dealing with the owner or the broker. That's the problem”

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  39. “But those people are expected to really be the highest performers if they want to have that ability. Talk to me about the funding requirements here in Japan for starting a company and the funding environment. We're going to have our Angel University for the first time here in Tokyo on Thursday. Today's Monday when we're taping this in January. And so there's started to become a bit of an angel syndicate building up here. So tell us about it.”

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  40. “It's hard to reverse it once you've gone down one of the different paths. We as a company have done return to office as an investment firm. We now have, I think, 12 of our 20 people in office. And I told everybody, you can work from home if you're in the top 25% of the company. And I said that when the company was 100% remote. And they said, well, what happens to everybody else? And I said, I don't know what happens to everybody else. And performance went up. We do allow some remote work.”

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  41. “Let's talk about that. The return to office culture do you believe a startup five days a week in the office, six days a week in the office just really crushing it has a major advantage over those that allow work from home and remote?”

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  42. “But then you also have to live in Dubai. Which might, if somebody's making a choice, maybe Japan has a bit of an edge culturally.”

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  43. “Because they have no tax or five or ten percent tax. And you can go work there. So, that is a competitive advantage for the Dubai's of the world”

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  44. “Sure. Japanese is going abroad, and then I guess the sub part of that is Americans coming to work for a Japanese company here.”

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  45. “And hiring for a startup here. So let's say you're a startup based in Japan. You're looking to address the U.S. market. Let's talk about talent going that direction and even hiring here. What are the best practices in Japan to find somebody truly talented? And then I guess our people also, I know a lot of colleagues have moved here because of the quality of life and because you can get a visa here.”

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  46. “But that changed just in the last 10 years And what is the impact of the people who work at Uber who then saw the company go public? How did that occur here in terms of the notability of it? Did the press pick it up? Did entrepreneurs here say, wow, the stock options are really where it's at. Because I have heard in the past from entrepreneurs in the US looking to expand in Japan and other places. people are conservative. They think stock options are a scam. They think it's not real. So they think it's a way to pay you a lower salary. So what's the best advice, the best practice today? And how do people look at it? And what was it like when maybe there were some Uber millionaires or even more here?”

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  47. “Is there a stock-based compensation driver here in Japan or around the APAC region like there is in the US and has that changed over the decade you've been doing this?”

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  48. “All right, so let's talk about how the United States and a company in the U.S. can come to Japan, and then we'll talk a little bit about the nature of startups in Japan. You mentioned something I thought was pretty interesting, which was a little bit hard to get and to recruit talent for Uber, and I'm assuming cloud kitchen is maybe a little bit less because Travis had a track record for this crazy new American company. Why is that?”

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  49. “I do have a number of impersonations. So you Previously worked for a friend of mine, Anne Will's, Travis from Uber, and you worked with him at Cloud Kitchens as well. Tell me what did you do for Travis at Uber and Cloud Kitchens?”

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  50. “You're interested in coming to Founder University, it's occurring now on three continents in three cities, occurring in the United States, occurring in Saudi, and occurring here in Tokyo. You can go to Tokyo.launch.co. Tokyo.launch.co. We've been trying to save up to get the M, but somebody else has the dot com. So today on the program, I've got the CEO of Higher H-Y-R-E. This is a startup that helps people recruit talent using a data-driven approach. And the co-founder is Show TK, like George Tay. Correct.”

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