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Your first hires become your next interviewers, so they need to match your values exactly or your culture drifts immediately. Dom Monkhouse stayed deeply involved in hiring until his company neared acquisition, when he finally stepped back.

Your first hires become your next interviewers, so they need to match your values exactly or your culture drifts immediately. Dom Monkhouse stayed deeply involved in hiring until his company neared acquisition, when he finally stepped back.
What was the point of leverage for you around recruitment then? If you hire a person who then goes on to interview other people and that first person that you hired is just 10 degrees out from your values, from how you'd normally hire, how you'd normally interview, you missed the moon. I had no problems in being involved. People might say, well, surely you trust your managers and surely that's something you should delegate. To be honest, I always found that very difficult as a counterargument. I agreed with it, but I also felt You know, letting go of that most valuable thing because those hires are the ones that grow the business. So long as you delegate and so long as you allow them to prosper and you treat them well and the rest of it. So I stayed involved in recruitment, but as I got closer to the acquisition, it got less and less. But that was probably the trigger.

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