Founders Own The Unpleasant Parts
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Founders Own The Unpleasant Parts
Today, we’re announcing a huge change at Tiny.
Entrepreneurship is just delegation taken to the extreme.
At first, you do it all. Badly and all at once.
It sucks. Because you suck.
Then you read a book and have a lightbulb moment:
You realize that you can hire someone to do the things you’re bad at.
It feels like someone has given you the che... See more
Takeaways:
- Sales becomes the second most common hire , after engineering.
- A quarter of companies hired a product manager at this point.
- Recruiters become a surprisingly common hire. I did not expect that. This is particularly true across some of the most unique startups, like Linear, Figma, Ramp, and Coda. Here’s Jori Lallo, co-founder of Linear,
Lenny Rachitsky • Hiring your early team
If you’re five or 500 people, hire as many originals as you can. Yes, there are risks of hiring too many originals — but it’s even riskier to hire too few.
First Round Capital • Adam Grant On Interviewing to Hire Trailblazers, Nonconformists and Originals
Hire managers of one
Jason Fried • Rework
Founders should spend at least 1/3 of their time hiring
Erik Torenberg • Emil Michael (ex CBO at Uber)
Hire managers of one