“What’s Not Being Said” with Zack Kanter
Village Global Podcast
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How Do You Allocate Your Capital?
When he started Steady, people said I had a founder say to me, don't pay an engineer more than $135,000 a year because you're just going to get mercenaries and all this stuff. And I look back on that as probably the worst single piece of advice I've ever gotten. He offered him 145 and six months went by. Well, no, six months gone by. And I didn't find anyone nearly as good during that time period. So in order to save $25,000 over that time period or whatever it is, I've given up six months of productivity of one engineer.
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