Hiring engineers at the MVP stage slows launches and blocks insights
Diana Hu · Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator · Apr 21, 2023 · at 9:47
Y Combinator Group Partner Diana Hu discusses why early-stage startup founders should build their own initial minimum viable product rather than hiring outside engineers.
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“It's gonna actually slow you down in terms of launching quickly, because if you're hiring from a pool of people and engineers that you don't know, it takes over a month or more to find someone good, and it's hard to find people at this stage where it's very nebulous and chaotic, so it's gonna make you move slowly. And the other more insidious thing is going to make you Not develop some of the insights about your product because your product will evolve. If someone else in your team is building that and not the founders, you're going to miss that key learning about your tech that could have a gold nugget, but it was not built by you.”
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