The CFO's Hiring Playbook with Pat Sullivan - Beyond The Offer Ep 20
Most hiring conversations focus on filling open roles.
This episode focuses on what happens after the hire is made.
Bill Gates and Rosanna Snediker sit down with Pat Sullivan, CFO of A-Rent Test Equipment , to talk about hiring inside growth-stage companies and why so many scaling problems actually trace back to people decisions.
The conversation gets into:
hiring for adaptability instead of perfect experience
the operational drag caused by bad hires
why "my team feels busy" is not a hiring strategy
how finance and HR should think about headcount together
what scalable teams actually look…
The skinny
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