{"id":7983,"date":"2025-05-14T14:44:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T09:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=7983"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T09:14:32","slug":"fire-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/14\/fire-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I keep hearing that hiring is a challenge. We have had our share, too. One thing that has stood by us is finding people with fire\u2014in crude terms, fire in the butt (<em>gand me dum<\/em>). Some people think I am offending them by saying this during interviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A startup is a roller coaster ride. Apart from the runway, there are many other things to worry about. What works in these situations is having a team with the core virtue of going all in for the kill. We need people with fire and ownership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a small team like ours and what we have been building, this approach has worked for us\u2014finding people with &#8220;<em>bum me dum<\/em>.&#8221; I believe anyone and everyone can learn things, but the attitude of owning and running the show is what makes a big difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep hearing that hiring is a challenge. We have had our share, too. One thing that has stood by us is finding people with fire\u2014in crude terms, fire in the butt (gand me dum). Some people think I am offending them by saying this during interviews. A startup is a roller coaster ride. Apart &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/14\/fire-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1544],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7984,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions\/7984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}