Alina Vandenberghe sold her house with her husband to bootstrap Chili Piper in 2016 and built a culture so magnetic that recruiters offering double the salary can't poach her people. In this episode, the co-founder and co-CEO of the billion-dollar B2B meeting automation platform reveals how she identifies intrinsic motivation in interviews, why she reads body language over words, and the radical transparency policies that make employees want to stay forever.

What You'll Learn

1. Why words in interviews are useless, and the specific body language cues Alina watches for to detect genuine passion versus rehearsed answers
2. The "soul-sucking task" Slack channel that turns automation requests into promotion opportunities, and keeps your best people engaged
3. How to hire for curiosity and self-sufficiency: the two traits that haven't changed from employee #1 to employee #150
4. The counterintuitive approach to retention: why Alina's goal isn't keeping people, it's creating environments where they find the most growth
5. Why her best recruiting channel is in-person events (even for a fully remote company), and how she identifies top talent without a target list
6. The transparency policies that make employees immune to poaching: market-based salary adjustments, decision visibility, and zero monitoring
7. How to introduce automation expectations during hiring so employees become participants in AI adoption, not resistors

Where to find Alina Vandenberghe:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alinav/

Website: https://www.chilipiper.com/

Company: Chili Piper (Demand Conversion Platform for B2B revenue teams)

Where to find Luiz Cent:

Website: https://latamcent.com/Who We Hire: https://whowehire.org/

In this episode, we cover

00:00: Trailer Episode 3 Who We Hire - Alina Vandenberghe

05:00: Reading body language: looking for "light in the eyes" and fire in the belly

09:30: How AI changed the workload equation, and why it's more overwhelming than expected

14:00: The "help" value: screening for people who get joy from helping others

19:00: How to recruit without a target list: meeting smart people and building long-term relationships

25:30: Why employees aren't threatened by automation: they're participants, not victims

30:00 Final thoughts: building a culture that belongs to everyone, not just founders

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