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[Nik Bonaddio]

...yep.

Culture is everything when building a team. If you can't create a culture
that makes people love working for you, you'll never survive. I'm not
interested in creating a culture that works for everyone, I'm interested in
creating a culture that works specifically for the key people I need. It's
not a job for everyone, and I'll never describe it as such.

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Matt Juszczak <matt at atopia.net> wrote:

> Kristina,
>
> In their defense, this kind of agile, work hard, play hard environment is
> becoming much more common.  One of the largest start-ups I know gladly gives
> free alcohol to their employees, and yes, they drink during the day. But no
> is irresponsible, and it's been rated one of the top companies to work for.
>  Like Nik's company (I assume), they are looking for top talent and wouldn't
> hire people who are likely to abuse the system.  My guess is (though I don't
> know Nik) that his company also has an extremely relaxed vacation policy,
> because it isn't about the time you take, it's about the work you
> accomplish.
>
> -Matt
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Kristina Anderson wrote:
>
>  These are the sorts of job posts that just  make me look forward to
>> switching to a different career... "kegerator" & "beer pong"?
>> I should want to hang out with you outside of work and watch you drink
>> until
>> you puke while listening to loud rock & roll music?  (From the tone of the
>> below it seems like you  may be doing this during the workday!)
>>
>> Clearly nobody in this awesome company has yet seen their 25th birthday...
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/11/2011 3:47 PM, Nik Bonaddio wrote:
>>      I'm not a recruiter. Recruiters are lame and have no idea what
>>      they're doing. I know exactly what I'm looking for, so I'm
>>      posting here.
>>
>>      ---
>>
>>      Let's start with the boring stuff up front: We're a small,
>>      agile, well-trafficked startup in the sports analytics space.
>>      We've been covered by TechCrunch, we've been written up in
>>      Sports Illustrated, and now we're going to revolutionize the way
>>      users consume and engage with sports content. Our founders are
>>      ballers, our advisors are even more ballerous, and just wait
>>      until you see our product..
>>
>>      If you're someone who loves sports and also loves building
>>      products, then we're your company. Even if you're not a huge
>>      sports fan, feel free to reach out to us - we're more interested
>>      in someone who knows how to get stuff done. If you're wondering
>>      what kind of people we're like socially, we have a kegerator in
>>      our office and our most played artist on iTunes is Animal
>>      Collective. You should be able to get our jokes and we should be
>>      able to want to hang out with you outside of work.
>>
>>      Our stack is built on PHP and MySQL, but we're considering
>>      moving to Couch or Mongo. What do you suggest? We'd love to
>>      know. We have a world-class designer and front-end developer on
>>      board, we need to find someone who is comfortable on the PHP
>>      backend, taking things from the browser-level all the way down
>>      to the DB. We're not looking for someone who is merely good;
>>      we're looking for great - '85 Bears great. Lemieux in the 91-92
>>      playoffs great. Lemonade and BBQ on a Summer afternoon great.
>>
>>      Skillsets:
>>
>>       o  Excellent PHP skills (should be comfortable building out an
>>
>>          application scalable to 100,000 daily uniques)
>>       o  Knowledgeable of system-wide architecture (setting up
>>
>>          version control, release engineering structs, etc.)
>>       o  Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup setting
>>       o  Familiarity with beer pong and general precepts of social
>>          skill
>>
>>
>>
>>      Nice to have:
>>
>>       o  Familiarity with HTML/CSS/jQuery (not totally necessary as
>>
>>          we already have a world-class designer and front-end)
>>       o  Sports fan (big, big plus - let us know what your favorite
>>
>>          team is)
>>
>>
>>
>>      What we're not:
>>
>>       o  Some huge, boring company where you'll have meetings about
>>          meetings
>>       o  A company that works in a space that you could care less
>>          about
>>       o  A startup that values founder's valuations over the future
>>          gains of the employees
>>       o  A company founded by a bunch of suits who can't code Hello
>>
>>          World in BASIC
>>
>>
>>      Even though we're a startup, this is a salary position. We'll
>>      shell out for the right employee. There is also a TON of equity
>>      involved; you're the third employee and huge part of our future
>>      success - we'll take care of you. You should ideally be in NYC,
>>      but that won't stop us from moving forward with the right
>>      person.
>>
>>      To apply, just send us a resume (please send nik at numberfire.com)
>>      and we'll go from there.
>>
>>
>>
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