Startup Class (by Sam Altman) Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II (https://youtube/watch?v=CVfnkM44Urs) If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it. We like to warn founders of this but no one really feels it until they make the mistake the first time, but it can poison the culture. Mediocre people at huge companies will cause some problems, but it wont kill the company. A single mediocre hire within the first five will often in fact kill a startup. Readings - 1. Stupid Apps and Changing the World by Sam Altman (blog.samaltman/stupid-apps-and-changing-the-world) 2. Do things that Don’t Scale by Paul Graham (paulgraham/ds.html) Discuss in the comments #startupclass #eDC #amity #entrepreneurship #teams #execution #hiring #buildingATeam
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 13:30:01 +0000