Eric Siu argues founders should micromanage one thing: hiring. Raising the bar on talent and being ruthless about who gets in reduces almost every other management burden. Top executive hires multiply individual impact, especially with AI tools like Cursor enabling more work per person.
The one thing that's worth micromanaging on forever. I listened to this, I am paraphrasing from Steve Jobs. The one thing the founder has full control over is continuing to raise the bar on talent and ruthlessly deciding who to let in. Because one really good engineer is not 10x. If we're talking 50x and 100x, maybe even 1,000x now with things like Cursor, right? For example, like your executive team, for example, that's the thing that's worth micromanaging on and making sure you got the best of the best, right? Because then you don't have to worry about all these things. Like you're only checking in on the things that maybe you can drive the most impact on.
