I don’t think many startups become great at hiring, hence it becomes difficult to not say no to people who are great at selling. The reasons are obvious: 1. E

I don’t think many startups become great at hiring, hence it becomes difficult to not say no to people who are great at selling. The reasons are obvious: 1. Early days of startup, when building a founding team —— you build a team based on who you know. 2. When growing the startup, it hires from the existing network such as founder’s school, church, country, etc 3. When it is rapidly scaling it hires from competition, or proven pedigrees such as Faangs, DrAb, etc. What gets missed in the above is the hardwork of hiring—-Advertising on boards, screening resumes, interviewing 1000s, etc. …and it is already late in muscle building when it comes to getting the right C-level.