What I find hilarious is how every VC podcast about bootstrapping your startup has both of these statements 30 seconds apart: 1. ALWAYS hire the best you can.

What I find hilarious is how every VC podcast about bootstrapping your startup has both of these statements 30 seconds apart: 1. ALWAYS hire the best you can. Hire people smarter than you. Hire the smartest people in the world! 2. It's always impossible to hire! We can never hire anyone! Yeah. Ya think? What I try to do is actually the opposite of their advice. I don't look for the perfect hire. I look for people who are often overlooked but COULD become the perfect hire. Just get them in at an affordable salary and build them into your best engineers. They will be amazingly loyal (since you gave them chance when they needed it) and you can train them to become PART of the team. You DO need senior people for this strategy though. They need mentors.