Early hires should be solely dictated by the needs of the business. That said, I hear where he's coming from. It's nearly impossible to build a great sales te

Early hires should be solely dictated by the needs of the business. That said, I hear where he's coming from. It's nearly impossible to build a great sales team if you, yourself, don't know sales. Ditto for ops, product, business development, fundraising, etc. But you don't have to do it all yourself. One of the valuable things you should look to early investors to bring to the table (besides money) is connections and deep expertise. In my last founding experience, we delegated the hiring of our first top salesperson to an investor, then did the same thing for marketing. It could not have worked out better.