How this startup hired 40 people in one day during hypergrowth

And we ended up hiring a lot in the first half of the year, and everybody always comes to Stockholm to get onboarded.

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And since we did so well every quarter, we were like, holy shit. We need to, like, scale to meet this demand. And we ended up hiring a lot in the first half of the year, and everybody always comes to Stockholm to get onboarded. But then after summer was when we had a really big batch. So I think August 4, it was, like, 40 people joining, which was, like, a 30% increase in the business. And then since then, it's been about 20 new joiners every two weeks or every four weeks. So we have an amazing person. Her name is Michaela. She runs all our onboarding, and we sort of have them in interact

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Max Junestrand describes Legora's intense hiring phase during their rapid growth, including bringing on 40 new employees in a single day which represented a 30% company increase. He details their ongoing hiring cadence of 20 new joiners every 2-4 weeks and how they manage onboarding at scale.

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This clip provides a concrete example of the operational challenges and scale of hiring during hypergrowth, with specific numbers that illustrate the intensity of rapid scaling.

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