Recruiting Executives for Startups

A lot of first time ontrepeners or first time scalers conflate the need for scale in order to hire an executive. And so i think that's the biggest place where i see people or organizations break itis during that scaling period when they haven't brought in executives yet. At squarepeg, we've seen founders build their teams in really different ways. Sometimes it's that typical early founder, slowly building out their team and adding to their bent strength overtime. In other cases, like athena home loans, for example, they hire their executive before hire literally, any one else on the team. I think it's by a hiring in people that you can learn from,