Jason M. Lemkin says his biggest regret is not recruiting better. He tells founders to spend 20% of their time on hiring and bring in specialists to own operational problems, pointing to CrowdStrike's outage as a cautionary tale of what happens when you don't get the right people in place.
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It's probably a mistake. Um, but this is why I've written about this constantly for more than a decade. I, I, I'd like— I wish I was a better recruiter, Harry. It's my number one regret in life in tech, is not being a better recruiter. Of investing talent? Of— yes, whatever version of it is. I'm not— it's not like I'm a, a bad— the world's worst recruiter, but you have— you should spend all of your— you should spend 20% of your time. I know you have like 3 partners, Harry, or whatever. You You should spend 20% of your time finding the one that, that will get you these deals that you weren't in. Relentless. And as executives, you should just be relentless about building your management team. Relentless. Like, stop wasting your time on this other thing. Find the guy that will make sure that you don't have the outage at CrowdStrike. Stop trying to fix the issues yourself, founders, and go find the person to fix it.