10x Recruiting

In this episode, Amber Weinberg, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Aperture, explains why most go-to-market leaders flop in interviews (hint: they don’t know how to tell their story), and why she ditches scorecards in favor of outcomes and cultural wiring. Her take? The best exec hires come from obsessively deep context—not checkbox criteria.

You’ll learn:
  • Why scorecards can derail high-stakes hiring
  • How to decode a company’s culture with one question: “What are you afraid of?”
  • The reference-checking playbook that goes until the signal stops
  • What it takes to truly integrate a new exec, long after the hire is made
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x

Key topics covered:
[00:00] Intro
[02:53] GTM leaders tell terrible candidate stories
[05:46] Nolan's pitch gets reconstructed live
[08:48] Snowflake versus Databricks storytelling secrets
[13:14] Culture and chemistry trump resume brands
[16:52] Deep immersion tactics for executive search
[19:15] What keeps founders up at night
[21:26] Why scorecards kill great hiring decisions
[23:39] Reference until you stop learning strategy
[25:20] Building proprietary candidate access networks
[29:27] Handling negative references with spiky executives
[31:25] 6 month executive onboarding reality check
[34:48] Board relationship setup prevents surprises

What is 10x Recruiting?

10x Recruiting is the podcast from Metaview that brings you real, unfiltered conversations with today’s top talent leaders. In each episode, Nolan Church (former Carta CPO & DoorDash Head of Talent) and his guests will challenge popular thinking and spark new ideas about what it takes to build world-class teams. We’ll bring you actionable tactics you can actually put into practice now and real metrics to understand what great looks like. Always with an eye towards the future, we’ll keep you in the know about how to stay ahead of the curve in the ever-evolving world of recruiting.