Pao Ramen

I like people and computers. Professionally, CEO of Ramensoft and former CTO and co-founder of Factorial.

Latest posts from Pao Ramen

• Hedonism and Entrepreneurship in Barcelona

  Feb 19 ⎯ 👏❤️😂13

  It is 9:30 a.m., and I have already snoozed the alarm five times. My brain feels glued to the back of my skull, and my eyes are puffed up. Last night was too much. I smoked too much weed and perhaps drank too many beers. I don’t remember. I share the flat with some friends, but the culprit the the neverending roster of misfits who show up to party every night. Yesterday we ended up singing The Lum…

  

• I left my own startup to not become my father.

  Jan 28 ⎯ ❤️👏10

  My father died one year ago. His transplanted kidney gave up. But it wasn’t the kidney that killed him, but his unwillingness to live. He waited for death like an old Indian man sitting by the Ganges bank, but he sat on his sofa instead, watching TV. Sometimes old Spanish soap operas. Sometimes American westerns without subtitles that he didn’t understand. He didn’t care. It all started three year…

  

• How to scale hiring

  Nov 25

  Table of contents I wrote down my hiring playbook and it turned out to become a book. I decided to split it in the following 3 chapters: The Talent Machine: A predictable recruiting playbook for technical roles. Building the pipeline: A sales-driven process for hiring. How to scale hiring: Hire hundreds of engineers without dying I've explained the whole hiring process pipeline thoroughly, bu…

  

• Building the pipeline

  Nov 19

  Table of contents I wrote down my hiring playbook and it turned out to become a book. I decided to split it in the following 3 chapters: The Talent Machine: A predictable recruiting playbook for technical roles. Building the pipeline: A sales-driven process for hiring. How to scale hiring: Hire hundreds of engineers without dying In the previous article, I argued that recruiting is just a sal…

  

• The Talent Machine

  Nov 12

  Table of contents I wrote down my hiring playbook and it turned out to be massive. I decided to split it in the following 3 chapters: The Talent Machine: A predictable recruiting playbook for technical roles. Building the pipeline: A sales-driven process for hiring Hiring Scaling: Hire hundreds of engineers without dying The room is packed. Mostly men in their 30s, wearing swag t-shirts and j…

  

• Antimemetics

  Sep 16

  One of Charlie Munger’s most powerful mental models is to “Invert, always invert.” This book does exactly that by exploring the antithesis of memes: antimemes. These are ideas that, instead of spreading easily, fail to be retained. Individually or collectively. I’m only halfway through this book, but I can already recommend it. It’s packed with fascinating concepts that make your brain bubble and …

  
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