How to Hire an Assistant to Start a Startup

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"Once you have an idea you're excited about i would hire an assistant out of the gate and that's going to compound the progress you make," founder says. "If you don't have enough income to to afford kind of 10 20 30k a year on assistant then you're gonna have to wait until you raise some funding or have some revenue but for you know anyone with a higher paying job i would say hiring an assistant is totally feasible", he adds.

Today we chat with Jonathan Swanson, cofounder of Thumbtack, Athena, and Powerset. We cover a ton of ground - starting with the Sunday idea club that led to Thumbtack, how to scale a marketplace, and how to choose ideas you'd happily spent a decade on. Next, we jump into the science of delegation - the idea at the core of Athena. Jonathan talks through how to delegate to an EA, when to start with one, a system of delegation that creates asymmetric upside and what type of founders should consider it.