Sorry, what do you think I'm misunderstanding? The GP is clearly suggesting thinking about role definition from day one rather than waiting until the 10-20 emp

Sorry, what do you think I'm misunderstanding? The GP is clearly suggesting thinking about role definition from day one rather than waiting until the 10-20 employee phase. I'm stating unequivocally that I think that is a mistake. The "urgency of hiring and delegating" only kicks in once you have a level of certainty of what needs to be done. Every employee you bring on adds not only burn rate, but also communication overhead. The only thing that gets a startup from the garage phase to actually being able to series A and credibly hire more than 10 people is for every founder and early employee to ruthlessly identify things that need to be done and execute on them. This idea of documenting what exactly founders are doing and thinking about delegating them is what YC has dubbed "playing house"*. [0] http://www.paulgraham.com/before.html http://www.paulgraham.com/before.html