What Founders Get Wrong About First Hires
The first five people decide the next fifty
Ask a founder about their worst early decision and hiring comes up more than product.\n\nThe pattern is consistent: founders hire for the company they imagine in three years rather than the one they are running this quarter.\n\n## Hire for the current problem\n\nThe first five hires set defaults for how work gets done. Those defaults outlive any individual role.
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