Founders

probably a YMMV situation but what do y’all think makes more sense for a pre-PMF company with < 5 employees:

1. hire slowly, only the perfect technical & culture fits
2. bring on whoever to progress the company even if you’re compromising (ie doesn’t care about product, remote vs in-person, not communicative)

context: we really need more hands on deck because we have a lot of things to ship (thankfully validated & asked for by customers), but it’s hard to find an in-person, web3-native/interested, product/customer-minded founding engineer in SF 😅

we definitely think they exist - just would take a lot of time..

As someone who’s built a big engineering team at an early stage, that was a mistake, I think the move is to only have 1-2 staff+ level eng, and *only* focus on go to market hires until you have PMF. Features you ship should be focused on the key levers that might get you to PMF.

Built to build. Skin in the game with scars to prove it. Angel Investor. YC founder. Prev engineering + ventures 
at Coinbase

Not saying don’t make this hire, just senior/staff level is a must, agree on in-person. The crypto part probably matters less and what should matter more is alignment with what you guys are doing

Would think about the features they’re shipping and weather those things are nice to haves or meanfully move the needle