Parents might be your best employees

My hiring philosophy is quite simple: find people who raise the bar. In practice, many of those people turn out to be parents. That’s not a coincidence, but it does require a deliberate choice about what you’re actually optimizing for, because the default settings of most high-growth companies screen parents out before they ever get a chance to prove what they can do. AI changed what great performance looks like Being great at your job is no longer about who can put in the m...