Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

how do you prevent overanalyzing in the hiring process?

2 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief advisory segment, the speaker urges founders to calibrate hiring decisions against the immediate objectives of the business rather than speculative needs 12‑24 months out. The core recommendation is to identify what must be achieved today and hire the person who can deliver it fastest, while also clarifying the founders' own responsibilities. The speaker reinforces the idea of keeping the early team small—using the “two‑pizza” rule—to ensure agility and effective collaboration, suggesting that additional hires can be added later when longer‑term needs become clear.

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You have to calibrate against what your objective is and recognize that there's a job to be done today. Too often we overanalyze the hiring process in terms of what I will need 12, 18, 24 months from now. Forget that. You can hire for that then. What do we need to achieve now? And who's going to get it done the fastest today in order to progress forward and calibrate against that? And an understanding of what you as the founder or founders are supposed to be doing and what You want to bring other people in to again supercharge this, again, group of people that can be fed off of one pizza, 2 pizzas in the early days. A 2-pizza company. Exactly.