Barksdale's company focuses relentlessly on acquiring talent. Which means it has to keep adding people at a ferocious pace. Netscape was founded in February 1994 with 2 employees. A year later it had 350 employees. It now has more than 2,000 employees.
Every person is involved in the process.
Netscape is not alone. All told, there are 18,000 unfilled positions in Silicon Valley today. High-tech companies in Austin, Texas expect to add 15,000 people this year. Last year Boeing hired a mind-boggling 20,000 employees, sometimes as many as 500 people in a single week. Call it power staffing.