■ Notes from the desk
Journal
What the market pays, how searches really run and what to do with a counter-offer. Written by the partners, from the numbers we see every week.
Method
The four questions we ask before taking a search
We turn down about a third of the searches we’re offered. These are the reasons.
Market notes
Frontier lab or trading firm? How the offers really compare
Compute, data access, publication rules and cash. A side-by-side from twenty-six offers we saw this year.
Method
Why we publish our shortlist numbers
212 approached, 38 met, 6 shortlisted. Why we show clients the whole funnel, every Friday.
Guides
Hiring your first ten engineers without a recruiter (mostly)
A practical guide for technical founders, from people who would happily do it for you.
Candidates
Counter-offers: when to take them seriously
Most counter-offers fix the number and nothing else. Here is how to tell when one is different.
Market notes
What people are paid
Offer data from the searches we run, anonymised and published twice a year.
Method
How searches run
The way we work, including the parts other firms leave out.
Guides
For hiring managers
Practical advice for founders and heads of talent hiring without us.
Candidates
For the people we call
Offers, counter-offers, equity and timing, from the other side of the table.
■ The Friday Funnel