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Paul Copplestone

05/14/25

@ Accel

Our company is distributed across 30 countries because we search globally for the right person for the job, regardless of their location.

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Supabase’s Paul Copplestone | Strategy vs Playing Startup | S3E10 | Spotlight On | AccelVC

@ Accel

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05/14/25

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Paul Copplestone

05/14/25

@ Accel

We treat our global hiring strategy like 'Moneyball', hiring talent from anywhere in the world instead of just major tech hubs like San Francisco and New York.

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Ryan Hoover

10/05/17

@ Y Combinator

Having a distributed team allows us to hire globally, avoiding the high costs and competition for talent in San Francisco, which is beneficial for early-stage startups.

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Sarah Nahm

07/10/19

@ Y Combinator

In our engineering organization, 81% of our team was proactively sourced, demonstrating that you can connect with great candidates anywhere.

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Ryan Hoover

10/05/17

@ Y Combinator

Our team is distributed across multiple time zones, which provides a global perspective and empathy towards our international user base.

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Vivek Ravisankar

03/30/18

@ Y Combinator

The future of hiring will involve building engineering teams globally, not limited to specific geographic areas.

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Julia Hartz

03/13/14

@ Y Combinator

In the early days, we focused on hiring the best talent to fill gaps in our skills, which helped us grow from three to over 300 employees in just a few years.

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Ammon Bartram

05/18/17

@ Y Combinator

Big companies generally do not care about a candidate's location, while smaller companies may prefer local candidates, giving them a slight advantage.

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Mayur Kamat

05/22/25

@ Lenny's Podcast

At N26, we prioritize hiring top talent because being a big fish in a small pond allows us to attract the best people in Europe.

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Danae Ringelmann

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

Being global from the start was crucial for us to serve customers everywhere, which required significant backend infrastructure development.