Scaling 100 to 1,000 People Without Chaos | Deep Geeks ep05

100 people. Then 300. Then 1,000. Here is how you add rigor to a hypergrowth company without killing what made it work. https://www.weka.io/podcast/nobody-has-done-this-job?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social In this clip from Deep Geeks, Iris turns the interview around and asks Roopesh a question every operator at a fast-scaling company faces: how do you build process when the recruiting infrastructure is not fully baked and the business will not slow down? His answer starts with what not to do. The worst move, he says, is letting process overpower innovation and curiosity, because the innovative and curious people are the reason the company got here at all. What he built instead was structure with a sales pitch attached. Some candidates were getting two interviews and some five. Some interviewers took notes and some did not. Fixing that meant changing how successful founders had always worked, so the approach was to secure sponsorship first and communicate the outcomes of the change rather than the change itself. Learn more: - Listen to the full episode: https://www.weka.io/podcast/nobody-has-done-this-job?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_content=full-episode - WEKA careers: https://www.weka.io/careers/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_content=careers - Subscribe for more AI infrastructure content: https://www.youtube.com/@WekaIO?sub_confirmation=1