How to Hire a Generalist for Your Startup

When would you hire another generalist? I think that's one of those dark magic thingies that's based on intuition. Sometimes you need people who are more natural leaders in general scope, but when is that moment? Where is the right moment? It's very too specific to every company and situation to know it. If you have a team of six people and everybody is generalist but not expert in anything, I don't think that's as good as having six people who have expertise in one thing,. But then general across everything else, like the T-shape, the classic T-shape. So I think that’s probably better. You want to have people who complement you

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