#8 - Hiring Horror Stories, Freelancing Tips & Cult Community Building Tricks w/ Riten Debnath

our first guest episode ever!

(apologies for the delays, between the edit, shooting other episodes and figuring out our internal process this episode took us +1 week than we originally planned for - a testament to how difficult building an entire podcast show can be from scratch haha!)

for those of you who don't know, Riten is the founder of ‪@Fuelerhq‬a proof of work platforms for freelancers. Having used the platform ourself along with knowing Riten for some time now, we really wanted to have him on to talk about 3 main things:

1. What companies do wrong while hiring creative talent
2. What creative talent does wrong while applying to jobs
3. How to build a cult-like community in 2025

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
1:47 What is fueler
16:57 What brands get wrong about hiring
25:05 How to apply for a job?
37:08 Best features of fueler
46:35 20 step mental model
55:58 What's so special about twitter
1:04:30 How to build a community
1:20:19 Parting thoughts

btw - this episode was supposed to be for 2hrs - but we ended up spending over 5hrs with Riten! there was just so much to cover and so little time.

we cover a lot in this episode, so make sure you watch till the end :)

follow Riten and Fueler here:
X: https://x.com/ritendn
Fueler: www.fueler.io

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Comment down below your favorite moment from the episode and who you want to see next!