Seibel: Faking product-market fit to early hires is fastest way to lose them
Michael Seibel · A Decade of Learnings from Y Combinator's CEO Michael Seibel · May 8, 2019 · at 4:38
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Michael Seibel, CEO of Y Combinator, discusses internal transparency and setting realistic expectations with early hires regarding product-market fit.
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“If you create the expectation inside of your company that you have product market fit with your employees and you don't grow, your employees start asking questions. And you really set yourself up to not be able to answer them well. So you want employees who are excited to help you find product market fit, not employees who think, oh, this is a rocket ship that's just false started. That's the easiest way to get your employees to leave.”
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