It Can’t Be Said Enough: Don’t Waste Time on Bad Hires │ Build Mode Podcast

The worst case scenario is they don't actually know what they're getting themselves into and they have this idea of a startup or they have a romanticized they're talking to you and they're talking to other people or they're going to show up and waste your time because all you really get early stage is time. You have to go go. And I like to say preede is measured in days, seed is measured in weeks, series A is measured in months, and series B is meas measured in quarters. And as a preede company, your unit of time is a day. How much are you getting done in a day? So, if you screw around and waste two weeks trying to hire somebody from big tech, going back and forth on negotiations, you've burned already too much time.