Hire executives 12 months before you need their full team built
Brad Bao · 20VC: Lime CEO Brad Bao on How Lime Assess The Micro-Mobility Landscape and Competition Today, What It Takes To Launch and Win A New City & Why Lime Have Spent $0 on Marketing To Date · Jun 14, 2019 · at 20:56
Brad Bao, co-founder and CEO of Lime, outlines his timeline framework for when early-stage startups should hire executive talent.
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“So for us, the way I look at it is that just imagine that a talent or a executive that imagine the team he or she will be managing 12 months from now. So therefore that you bring them on 12 months earlier and give them the opportunity to build that team over the course of 12 months and keep on running it.”
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