Hiring · 7 min
Hiring for the company you are building
Most founders hire to escape their current pain. The strongest teams are recruited against a blueprint.
Pain-driven hiring is the default mode of a growing company. Something hurts, so you hire someone to make it stop.
It works once. By the fifth hire you have a team assembled from a list of past problems rather than a design for future capability.
Recruit from the blueprint instead: what will this company need to be true in twenty-four months, and which of those capabilities cannot be learned in time?