Agent Skills: hiring-strategy

Your first 10 hires determine your company culture. Your first 50 determine your execution capacity. Hiring is the most leveraged activity a founder does, and the most common source of expensive mistakes. This skill covers when to hire, who to hire first, how to sequence roles, compensation and equity, interviewing and closing, and the many ways hiring goes wrong at startups. Use when "hiring, first hire, when to hire, who to hire, compensation, equity, salary, recruiting, interview process, offer negotiation, team building, engineer hire, sales hire, founding team, hiring, team, compensation, equity, recruiting, interviews, offers, startups, founding-team" mentioned.