"i've been trying to hire our first engineer for a year and like i can't like find anyone and it's not because there's literally no one with the word engineer on their resume that they can hire right [..."

"so hard frame this challenge for us because man this is something that we debate founders with all the time yeah so one of the most common things founders tell us they need to do during a yc batch is ..."

"founders and founders in general tell themselves about why hiring will solve all of their problems sure we'll jump into a couple of them so the big one is the thought that if you only had more people ..."

"advocate side though so you know hard you brought this up like the first point which i think is like really important is like if you're going to be a big company you're going to have a lot of employee..."

"save the company a lot of money so we actually encountered this in justin tv and twitch where um we hired someone from youtube who worked on scaling out their video instruct infrastructure and um that..."

"here what's so interesting is i find it so interesting how often yc's critiqued on these points to be completely honest like i think about what a normal vc someone who sits on a board what most of the..."

"instinct to over hire like it seems like whenever we encounter hiring advice like the instinct we're hire is always like i need more people i need more people i need more people and i think that like ..."

"good quality founders like one of the main causes of burnout is also like people problems um and i said they realized that they just didn't it turns out that they thought they were gonna love managing..."

"if you're post-product market fit ignore everything we talked about go crazy hire away if your pre-product market fit double down on everything we've talked about hiring is probably not your savior if..."