The reason why this CEO asks applicants to text him

The reason why this CEO asks applicants to text him

In a bizarre move, the CEO of a tech start-up has posted his phone number online asking applicants to give him a text.

Jager McConnell, Chief Executive at Crunchbase, a San Francisco-based business information aggregator, popped his digits onto the bottom of a recent press release asking engineers to “text me directly”.

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