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.