Geography shouldn’t be the reason you can’t hire your next best person.
And yet, that’s the reality for hundreds of orgs at the moment!
I sat down with Sagar Khatri, co-founder and CEO of Multiplier, who literally built a company because opening a bank account in Japan took him 12 months.
We got into all of it: why compliance is a zero-or-one problem (and why so many companies are getting it very wrong), what actually happens to your business when your team spans 50 countries and 70+ nationalities, and why the future of talent is all about finally being able to find them wherever they are instead of hoping they come to you.
00:01:45 – Something Sagar Had to Unlearn Early in His Career
00:03:48 – Why Sagar Started a Company
00:10:43 – How the Pain of Global Hiring is Happening on a Massive Scale
00:20:03 – What the International Structure at Multiply Looks Like
00:31:09 – The Biggest Mistake Companies Make When They Hire Globally for the First Time
00:37:33 – The Relationship Between Diverse and Distributed Teams and Business Performance
00:43:07 – AI’s Impact on International Talent Acquisition
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