This was an awesome talk and will definitely push me to come to more HN London meetup.

There also was a great question at the end asking you if there was some common traits to "detect" exceptional people to recruit and your answer was really insightful. You should consider adding it to your post or maybe dedicating a blog post to it.

In your talk you explained how you changed of roles at Songkick and it seems to be linked to finding people better than you at what you did so leaving them "in charge" of this part and taking up a new challenge. Hiring exceptional people and a good fit is hard as you described it. You have to find them and them convince them to work for you. But how do you hire someone for a role where he will be better than you at what you do and how do you convince them to take up on the offer?

The video for this talk will be online soon. It was comfortably one of the most insightful talks at HN London for a very long time. Definitely worth watching once it's up.

Cracking work Ian.