Show Founders Your Product, Not Your Resume
Source: Thelandingpad
Founders are replacing traditional interview formats with requests to see tangible work—a built tool, a YouTube channel, shipped code—because résumés and talking points have become too cheap to signal real capability. This mirrors how product-market fit itself works: if you can't demonstrate the thing you claim to do, the claim doesn't matter. Companies save weeks of interview theater by cutting directly to proof of execution. For early-stage hiring especially, this favors builders with visible portfolios over polished candidates, which reshuffles who gets called in and changes how people prepare for jobs.