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AD: great article Tom, covers a lot of questions I've had. One I didn't see was in regards to mentors. How important would you say having a mentor was to some of your initial raise…

AD: good spot! It actually line breaks on desktop view there, it must of snuck through.

> If the latter, employers should be aware they may be biasing hiring in favour rule-breakers. AD: It doesn't matter if you fund your friends to do it or you do it yourself, someon…

AD: We have clauses in place for these scenarios, Higher will act as the mediator in instances where a clear reason can't be established.

> I would only make the bet if I understood both sides AD: So this is integral to our system, those who are being asked to endorse candidates won't be doing so if they don't feel t…

AD: It wouldn't be a startup without an amount of "look how good we are"!... It absolutely is the endorsement flow. People will only be willing to endorse their candidates if they …

AD: Thanks for your comment, if you get into the T&C's we have clauses for when a candidate applies and is let go for reasons outside of being not fit for the role, there are pro-r…

> What stops Paul paying his friends/acquaintances to endorse him? AD: The fact that Paul is taking on all the risk, in effect Paul has made a self-endorsement via proxy... Paul ca…

AD: Interestingly... thats just a self-endorsement via a proxy, someone is still taking a risk.

AD: I hear you, we've just launched and money is our first and most generalised form of staking, expect more to come.

AD: It's worth pointing out that Harvard Business School just published a report[1] on what they deem as 'Hidden Workers' - one of the major factors in these workers remaining hidd…

AD: I'm very over-due on the second part to this series... On my third re-write. I promise to have it up very soon. It covers why human-centric systems are important particularly i…

AD: The service has been launched! However it's a manual on-boarding at the moment :)

Hello! Adrian and Paul here, we conceived of Higher almost 2 years ago now, partly inspired by a HN thread! The other part was Paul being asked to endorse a colleague he had worked…