SUCCESS INSIDER: What Salesforce doesn't want in hiring, how to get started in angel investing, and an innovation in beer business strategy

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SUCCESS INSIDER: What Salesforce doesn't want in hiring, how to get started in angel investing, and an innovation in beer business strategy

Ana Recio

Salesforce

Ana Recio, executive vice president of global recruiting at Salesforce.

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Arrogance: It's a bad look.

Especially if you're trying to land a job at Salesforce.

Take it from Ana Recio, the recruiting head at the cloud-software-for-everything company.

"The whole Silicon Valley, the whole globe is full of really talented people. And it's individuals who think that they're a little bit more special than the rest. That's not gonna work," she told Business Insider.

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"If you walk into a room and you have this sense that you're the smartest one there, you're probably not going to have a good experience at Salesforce," she added.

Find out why here.

Welcome to Success Insider, the Business Insider newsletter where we talk about getting things done.

Our desk, the name of which sits at the top of the site, is "Strategy." This draws from the management, leadership, careers, and similar coverage that you see at legacy business publications. One might think of the section as the how to the many whats that our colleagues cover. Rather than writing up the news items of the day, we try to bring you into how things get done - in large companies, in startups and small businesses, and in your career.

Like, say, starting a brewery.

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Night Shift Brewing.

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Here's an inside look at how a wildly popular Boston craft brewery started its own distribution company, grew production more than 10X in 5 years, and created a 'tribal community' around its beers

Reporter and photographer Dominick Reuter visited Night Shift Brewing outside Boston - and if you like beer, the results looked delicious.

The Night Shift team talked us through their growth strategy, including how it launched its own distribution company to get around some restrictive Massachusetts legislation.

They also grew a feverous following, on Instagram and otherwise.

Check the beer strategy here.

Angels, scale, and finding the funding fit.

Here's what else has been happening in Success land:

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Until next week!

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