hiring

“If you raise around prematurely, if you raise like ten million dollars before you've kind of gone through that pain, now you're under pressure to hire people, and you might not have a clear sense of exactly who you need, because every, you know, you keep using…”

“Hiring is a solution to a problem. The more hiring you do means the bigger problems you have. And so it means you couldn't solve them in a more creative and scalable way.”

“I don't know if I believe there's ever a time to pour fuel on people. I believe there's time to pour fuel on marketing or business development or partnerships or different distribution channels, but I actually think that's very different from people. So I thin…”

“So I think 80% of this is really solved by hiring. And the other 20% is solved by making sure we don't miss out on opportunities that are not directly staring us at the face.”

“If you don't hire the right people, if you hired kind of the wrong people, or if you got into a place where the culture in the company is kind of broken, those two things are very hard to fix. Most other things you can fix. You can rewrite your product, you ca…”

“So if you're giving out equity of your company, it's a one way door. You can't get it back. You know, oftentimes if you're hiring someone, it can be a two way door. If it doesn't work out, you part ways.”

“I rather have the people that have the There's incredible strengths in the weaknesses than the people that are okay in just certain areas. Those tend to be, if you manage them adequately, those are much more powerful type of hires.”

“Invest in strength, not lack of weakness.”

“If it's a really bad hire, you will know, like, within a few weeks.”

“Hiring is really freaking hard. Like it is the one area where I think most early stage founders get most wrong.”

“One thing that I think would have helped me is like after an interview, asking myself, do I see myself working for 10 years with that person? Like, do I like their energy or like this kind of things? I think it's super important. And sometimes it's not even th…”

“I don't think that hiring more Is always the answer to growing faster. And actually I think sometimes it's the opposite. I've seen too many times, you know, like you hire too quickly, you hire the wrong people. You can't keep like a high level, you know, like …”