Errett: Hiring co-founders for likability cost Madison Reed years of growth
Amy Errett · Madison Reed: Amy Errett · Aug 18, 2025 · at 55:32
Amy Errett is the founder and CEO of hair color company Madison Reed, reflecting on the challenges of assembling her initial founding team.
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“This was Amy's, ah, magical thinking, as I call it, to put something together with a group of people that I liked, which is a bias, by the way, that one hires for liking a lot, has a certain bias that I would suggest. Everyone start thinking about, it's not just about like and I thought I could will it to work, and it didn't, and it cost the, I would say it cost the company a couple of years in retrospect of what I would call substantial developmental leaps that we needed to take.”
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