We spend a lot of time on Founder Stories talking about hiring and culture largely because there is no secret sauce or fail-proof way that guarantees success. My guest this week is a serial entrepreneur who attributes the success of his current company, OneID, to creating a culture that attracts the best hires.
Steven Kirsch, whose past startup successes include Mouse Systems, FrameMaker and Infoseek, says that "people are very hard to change" and admits that he has made many of the same mistakes at all of the companies he has led over the years. This is why, according to Kirsch, hiring the right people who have complementary skills is important.
In our discussion, Kirsch also talks about how he learned that recruiting top talent who look at the world in new and interesting ways is crucial. He explains how early in his career he tended to under hire, opting instead to bring people up with the company. But in recent years he has looked to companies like Tesla and Google to learn that the best employees build the best products. This is why for OneID, Kirsch hired an engineering team in Austin. Watch to hear his advice on creating culture at a company that is growing in two separate locations.
Editor's Note: Michael Abbott is a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, previously Twitter's VP of Engineering, and a founder himself. Mike also writes a blog called uncapitalized. You can follow him on Twitter @mabb0tt.
Steve has been at the forefront of tech innovation for more than three decades. He invented and owns a patent on an early version of the optical mouse, founded Infoseek, one of the first Internet search engines, and helped create FrameMaker, a popular publication tool used by technical writers. Sick of having 357 different usernames and passwords, Steve founded OneID in September 2011. The company is backed by Vinod Khosla's Khosla Ventures. He helped rid the world of junk...
OneID was founded by Silicon Valley visionary and serial entrepreneur Steve Kirsch, who wants to replace the current username/password digital identity paradigm with an entirely new approach that asserts digital identity across all devices (PCs, smartphones, tablets, etc.) using public key cryptography instead of shared secrets (such as passwords). The OneID digital identity system is comprised of software that runs in four different places: browsers, mobile devices, websites, and the cloud. All of these elements combine...
Mike Abbott joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a partner in 2011. He focuses on investments in the firm's digital practice, helping entrepreneurs in the social, mobile and cloud computing sectors rapidly scale teams and ventures. Mike serves as an expert resource on enterprise infrastructure, cloud computing and "big data." He also helps entrepreneurs win the race for talent in a hyper-competitive recruitment environment. An engineering leader, entrepreneur and investor, Mike led the building of innovative, high-performance applications and...
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