Josh Kopelman

Hiring at AI Speed: Artemis Secures Talent in 48 Hours

Shachar Hirshberg and Dan Shiebler make offers to new hires within 48 hours of their first conversation. They’re building an AI-native security company, Artemis Security, that battles threats that move at machine speed (which, for AI-driven attacks, is often in seconds). So speed is naturally an important operating principle for them. They’ve assembled a team of 30 people in NYC in under seven months, which they’ve done by front-loading references, bringing candidates in for lunch with the full team, and managing most of the recruiting process directly themselves. Engineering velocity is often a hiring problem in this market, and these guys have figured out a system that lets their recruiting process move as fast as their product. Their engineers run multiple Claude Code instances simultaneously to ship features in parallel, nearly all of their code is AI-generated, and they’ve outrun their original product roadmap by seven months. But they still haven’t managed to find any candidates who use AI as heavily as the Artemis team does. That isn’t a dealbreaker for them, though — they’re only looking for people who want to learn, and they train everyone who joins to ship as fast as the founders do. Fresh off their $70M fundraise and launch out of stealth, I sat down with Shachar and Dan on In Depth to find out how they’re pulling all of this off. We also dig into: -Why they’re on a texting basis with every CISO they sign -Why AI is a death knell for legacy security platforms -How they maintain decision-making velocity in their relationship as co-founders