Over-hiring executives early in a company's life is one of the biggest anti-patterns out there. Their skills are, at best, tangential to your early-stage needs

Over-hiring executives early in a company's life is one of the biggest anti-patterns out there. Their skills are, at best, tangential to your early-stage needs and the suck up money, time, and attention that would otherwise go towards getting things done. If you and your co-founders are not capable of being the sole executives in your (early-stage) startup, you should seriously reconsider your team.