Lauritzen: Hiring Untrusted Players Forces Top Engineering Talent to Leave
Jacob Lauritzen · Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Jun 6, 2026 · at 45:27
Jacob Lauritzen is the CTO of Legora. He discusses why maintaining a strict hiring bar takes priority over hitting headcount targets during rapid company expansion.
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“I'd rather miss my number and have A players than hit it with B players, because I think as soon as you introduce players, as soon as you have people that you don't trust or that the team doesn't trust, the A players won't stick around.”
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