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So, a lot of these companies, like, even Uber, when they came to Japan or wherever, they grilled them super hard, right? Like, even if it's, like, an outbound, hey, let's chat. I want to chat with you about chat. I want to chat with you about Uber. Let's get on the chat. And they start asking questions. It's like, no, you got to, like, sell the company first. Get them excited. Right. Get them pumped.
one thing about Travis was, like, he put recruiting function as one of the frontline functions. You know, usually companies would put sales first, right? Because, I mean, it's a revenue driver. Right. But Travis actually, like, prioritized recruiting. So, like, operations function, obviously most important, but recruiting was, like, equally as important. So – ... Correct. He would spend time with the recruiting team, and, you know, he would give us an hour every week just with the recruiting fun
Yeah, so it was very challenging because, like, for example, the Uber interview process, right? It's very different. Like, you'll have an analytical exercise where you get, like, an online thing. You have to pass, like, certain marks, and it's a multiple choice, right? And as a candidate, it's like, hey, this is what you do first. Okay, sure. Like, maybe it's like a sort of like a logic test or whatever. Then you go through interview process. Then you have this deep dive where it's like a one-ho
Uber was really one of the kind of first companies in Japan to, like, offer stock to employees, in my opinion. And, of course, Uber was a – it is a generational company. There's not that many companies that's going to be like that. ... A hundred billion dollar company.
I joined Travis, like, Uber in 2015. So actually, back then, it was still, you know, it's a 4,000-people company, so it's still massive. ... Uber was a sexy brand in the U.S., right? But in Asia, it was still like, oh, it's like an illegal taxi company. What is this? Like, I don't want to get in strangers' cars. So it was, like, not as easy as you would think to recruit here.