Why 90% of Startups Fail at Hiring — And How to Be the 10%
🔥 Why 90% of Startups Fail at Hiring — And How to Be the 10%
Hard truths and battle-tested strategies to scale your team without breaking your startup
(Official Side Event of Penang Slush'd 2024)
Get ready for an unfiltered afternoon of brutally honest insights, real-world hiring war stories, and battle-tested strategies from two of the region’s sharpest minds in talent and growth.
Join Jordan Jarjoura (🎯 CPO at a leading HR Tech firm & former Google Engineering Recruitment Lead) and Sam Baxendale (🚀 CEO of Kinetik and veteran talent leader) as they expose what’s really going wrong in startup hiring — and how you can avoid the costly mistakes that kill scale before it starts.
In this exclusive side event at Slush’d, you’ll get frameworks, case studies, and hiring metrics that truly matter from inside ASEAN’s fastest-growing companies. We’ll unpack the recruitment myths, broken processes, and what actually works — whether you’re building your first team or scaling across borders.
🗓️ Agenda:
🕒 11:00 | Arrival & Networking – Ease in, meet the community, fuel up.
🔥 11:10 | Fireside Chat: "Growth in a Digital Market" – No fluff. Just hard-earned advice.
❓ 12:10 | Live Q&A – Ask what others won’t.
🍽️ 13:30 | Eat, Drink, Network – Meet fellow growth warriors and make it count.
👥 Who Should Attend:
👩💻 Startup Founders • 🧑💼 CxOs • 🎯 HR & Talent Leaders • 💼 Investors • 🚀 Growth Builders
Whether you're hiring 3 people or 300, if you're building anything in ASEAN — you need to be in this room.
Limited capacity. No replays. No BS. Just the truth.
🎟️ Lock in your seat now before it’s gone.