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How does NASA hire civil engineers?

What's the best way to leverage $5M to hire lots of great engineers?

  • Some ideas: - send 100K engineers a $50 gift - fly 17K engineers to silicon valley (SV) for a conference ($300 each) - buy ads for job postings on FB or google - start a private club for entrepreneurs in SV - buy an island & throw invite-only parties - buy an awesome house in SV & throw awesome parties - start an invite-only conference for entrepreneurial engineers similar to summit series - pay talented ghost writers to write 10-20 books on your behalf - start a co-working space & siphon off talent - start incubators near top engineering colleges - start a hostel for entrepreneurs visiting SV from out of town - start a town in Mexico or India & recruit / train local talent

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    None of that. Rather, I'd invest deeply in the open source community. Look for any/all opportunities to be in the same place where people are working on open source. A few more specific suggestions: Have a strong presence at open source conferences. Donate money to organizations that are building open source projects. Rent a hacker space and give the desks away to people who want to write open source software. Note: I actually do like the idea of creating a Summit Series-like event for engineers. Sounds a bit like the Founders 50 conference (http://www.inc.com/eric-markowitz/founders-fund-staging-the-most-exclusive-tech-conference-ever.html).

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