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.