Life would be so damn easy if all our co-founders and early hires were A players but also remained so at every stage of business growth. But life rare

When Your Startup Grows Faster than Your Team

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2024-12-12 06:00:07

Life would be so damn easy if all our co-founders and early hires were A players but also remained so at every stage of business growth.

But life rarely works out like that, however hard you try. People who are Grade A for 1m. turnover often struggle to deliver by 10m. And so on.

The original team fragments. Some hate the culture changes, while others dislike the pressure. Some hang on when secretly you wish they wouldn’t.

Hiring to expand the team becomes a perpetual challenge. I hired a depressing and damaging number of real disasters in one company I had. I was panic hiring and fighting a skills shortage in the sector.

It is an easy mistake to fail to strategize recruitment ahead of growth so that people are safely embedded and ready to deliver. Panic hires almost inevitably turn out disastrously.

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