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WANTED: Quirky Individuals to Join a Fast Growing Startup to Build the Future (as we want it to be)

"Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future." Peter Thiel

ARE YOU:

Curious? Exceptionally clever? Addicted to technology? Willing to venture into the unknown? Willing to adapt fast? Willing to join an already weird team that wants to learn and teach new things? Passionate about a hobby that you'd love to share with other people? Wanting to change the present to make the future better?

DO YOU: Like solving problems? Like finding new ways of more efficiently doing things? Like spending time on a spreadsheet to help you make better decisions? Love breaking things just to put them back together? Think that grit is all it takes to get something done? Think that you'd be a good match for the team? Think that every job posting should be like this? Want to know more?

Are you brilliant? Are you bold? We're hiring. Explore the Warehouse.

TO APPLY: Please send us an email with the following information: Background information Resume Answers to the following 6 questions:

What important truth do very few people agree with you on? What is a great company that no one has started yet? What are some of your favorite websites? What are some of your favorite books? What would you do if you knew that you only had 24 hours left on this planet? What do you really believe in?

Thank you for taking the time to read this. We wish you well in your search for a new and better future.

What can we do to improve? Please feel free to send us questions and/or comments.

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thank you! just updated it. any random problem we could try to research and help solve with you?

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If anyone is interested in sharing any ideas for new books to add, donating any books, or helping in any other way, please feel free to contact us as we’d love to hear from you. We’re really just trying to build a massive library at our office (or future new location), and my entire personal book collection will be transferred to this to help speed up the process of creating a large list as fast as possible, to help the network grow. The list is only a few days old (and most of it hasn’t even arrived from Amazon yet!)

Our current heuristics for purchasing new books:

Think of Subject (Google+Amazon+Wiki+?) -> Search for 3-10 highest reviewed books (Amazon) -> Purchase ($!) -> Add to Master List (Google Sheets) -> Aggregate Tons of Data (Amazon+Google+?) -> Continue Building List of Books (Referrals+Search+Reviews) -> Perform Tons of Regression Analysis to Learn (?!#?!) -> Figure out all steps for Data/Sheet to update in Real-Time (this is the largest unknown variable in the equation, and we need to get to this point as fast as possible to properly scale the idea)

We’ve self funded the books that are on the current list over the last few days, by purchasing them on Amazon, and we have 500-1000 more unique titles to add in the coming week, so I hope that this is a start to something great. Please let me/us know if there’s anything we could do to improve. Thank you for your time reading this.

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Our current business allows us the flexibility to easily ship things (at least nationally!), so today I'd love to start an additional experiment where anyone in the US (all 50 states - need to limit exposure first, sorry!) can borrow any of the books listed on the sheet, free of charge. We’ll keep track of updates for rentals+returns as time goes on, but we truly believe that we needed to continually invest more and more in the future for both our team, and our company, first by allocating capital to this idea, and then allowing it time to grow on it’s own. If this project and/or experiment(s) are a failure, then the worst case scenario is we have lots of interesting books to read, that lots of people would be happy taking home, so all would not be lost.

We can’t promise anything at this point other than what we just shared with everyone. We would very much appreciate any help or ideas that anyone might have to help us move forward, or could help with what we’re trying to accomplish. We’ll continually re-evaluate the future, based on the variables that we currently have, and then re-adjust accordingly, but this offer is available until I/we state otherwise.

The technology for what we’re trying to accomplish is still very basic, and I’d love to see it continually improve with time, to remove any friction in the process. We see no end to our investment in books, or the future, so unless this gets too huge, then we’re fine. But if it does get huge, then that just presents other opportunities (assuming we could fund it until that point!).

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I love discussing new books and subjects with my family/friends/team, and always look forward to any opportunity for that situation to present itself, but I believe that something or someone has to change our current position(s) to allow the situation to better present itself to each party. Then I started thinking of an offer/accept based tech system that might be able to help align many people’s interests. We’re not sure if the idea currently exists in this current form but we also like fun experiments.

My initial intention with creating "The Library" would be to create a new network to help create/maintain connections between people that might not have existed before. By creating it, I would start the process by purchasing a list of books that are interesting to me, and hopefully people that I know. Everyone has their own unique interest in books, and so as a collective group, I would hope to eventually have a very diverse range of book subjects. Creating and maintaining a large list of books will (hopefully) naturally help our organization grow into what we want for the future, and continually bring up the standards of learning for those involved.

Within the last few days of sharing this sheet with some of my past/current friends, we’ve had many more enjoyable interactions and conversations that might not have previously happened, without this. I hope that result would present itself for future relationships that don’t yet exist. That’s one of the reasons that I’m sharing our idea here today, to solicit any feedback, both negative+positive, with the hopes of building a new network that many people would eventually want to be a part of. I’m very thankful for this site to be around so maybe this could be a way for us to help in return.

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