The last calendar year has been one heck of a ride. Which ended in Richmond with a wonderful marriage, a beautiful daughter and an incredible job at Capital One Bank. Let's talk about Capital One. They started their bank 5 years ago, that's right, 5 years ago and now they are the 8th largest bank in the US. In the banking world this kind of growth is unheard of. A good way to measure this is if you look at the other 9 banks all of them are at least 50 years old.

I believe Capital One's successful growth is, in part, due to the way they approach business and their hiring practices. I'll focus on the hiring practices. It's about a 3-4 month process with a barrage of interviews, equal parts behavioral interviews to case study interviews, along with an aptitude test, which tests your analytical and reading comprehension. The result: very talented employees. A product of this are intense meetings with very smart people. Being on your 'A' game is not an every once in a while kind of thing, it's an every hour of every work day kind of thing. Putting all of this together you get a company that  is very nimble in bringing up it's product offerings for it's respectively new founded bank.

I'm excited to see what the future holds for Capital One in the banking world. I would like to help them get to number 1, after all it's in the name, but I may be getting ahead of myself.