Before founding Pandora, the most hiring Tim Westergren had ever done was to recruit four people to play in a rock band.
"You start with a handful (of people)," Westergren tells Fast Company, "and you quickly get comfortable with the process." In its earliest days, Pandora’s staff could be counted on two hands. The company continued to grow and went public in 2011. Revenue in 2014 was just north of $920 million and its ranks have swelled to around 1,700 and counting.
