This week on the Inc. Uncensored podcast, hosted by Inc. magazine editor Jim Ledbetter, writers and editors explore the hard things about being a founder, from acquiring top talent in a competitive workforce to selling your company.
Staff writer Will Yakowicz talks about how companies are coming up with creative ways to attract top engineering talent without promising Google-esque office perks like bean bag chairs, Pong-Pong tables, and unlimited snack food. Many executives bemoan how difficult it can be to attract top engineering talent as more companies from all different industries compete to hire developers. Patrick Morley, the CEO of cyber security company Carbon Black, says the Waltham, Massachusetts-based company had to build an office in Boston because engineer candidates living in the city would not commit to a 30-minute commute to the company's headquarters. Find out what other strategies companies are employing to attract top talent.
Senior writer Christine Lagorio-Chafkin talks about how influencer-marketing agency Clever uses Myers-Briggs personality tests and horoscopes to facilitate communication across its virtual company. The company's 50 employees all work remotely and communicate and collaborate through Slack. Clever also uses Disney Princess quizzes for team-building exercises.
For this week's "Exit Interview," the team speaks with George Kurtz, the founder of cyber security company Crowdstrike, which helped the Democratic National Committee after hackers breached its network this year. Kurtz talks about what it was like to sell Foundstone, his first company, to cyber giant McAfee in 2004. Find out why Kurtz says running a startup can be like a "knife fight" and how he dealt with the transformation from startup founder to being an employee at a multibillion-dollar company.
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