Ugh, yeah, I've recruited a few of these people. They're the worst because: 1) they're used to the benefits that come from a company that is swimming in cash

Ugh, yeah, I've recruited a few of these people. They're the worst because: 1) they're used to the benefits that come from a company that is swimming in cash 2) they didn't personally take any of the risk to create that firehose of cash but they want you to treat them like they did. 3) they don't realize it, but they're used to working in very protected environments. Typical career paths look like top-tier college -> Google / FB / Twitter / whatever. None of this prepares them for sitting in a room with some shitty Ikea desks and trying to make hard decisions that will have a direct impact on the companies growth. No, we don't have the time or resources to build a new JS framework. I'd much rather higher someone from a second-tier US college or from overseas that can show me a time when they took significant risk / projects they built from scratch. ^ All of this is in relationship to < 20 employee companies trying to get from zero to 1.