Your first hires depend on what your founding team actually needs, not a template. The hard part is convincing people to join something unproven, which means showing passion for the problem, confidence you can solve it, and exactly how they'll help get there.
You look for with your first hires?
I think the scope, depending on the founding team, that's one of the things I always like to say. People ask me, how do you support your founders? And the honest answer is, it depends, because all founders are different and what their needs are different. And so we try and create a model which is bespoke to each team, obviously with a baseline level of communication and the like. And so, you know, for your first employees, these are people who you have to convince to join you on this insane thing of a new company with tremendous amounts of risk, no idea whether or not it's gonna work, but your passion for the problem that you're solving, the solution that you have, and the means through which they will be able to support that vision comes through.
Paige of Behind Genius driving an AI electric train in St. Louis (Intramotev Visit)
