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)

Went through this a year ago.
Hire carefully, remote opens up far more high value candidates despite the productivity challenges.

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💯 remote.  Because of our niche this was the only option.  
Over indexed on resources/skills that support remote (Sr resources, self directed, strong communication, strong dev ops, time zone fit).

It's worked amazingly well, team is Canada/US/Brazil.

did y’all end up hiring remote folks knowing that tradeoff and did it turn out well? looking back would you have preferred waiting for someone in-person?