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We hired four seniors. Then spent more time in meetings than shipping.

Hired 4 full-time senior specialists simultaneously right after raising our angel round because we assumed headcount directly equaled shipping speed. Our monthly burn quadrupled overnight while our processes were still completely unstructured. We spent more time in alignment meetings than shipping, and had to do painful layoffs 6 months later.

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I wish I had hired versatile generalists or contractors first, scaling headcount only when specific bottlenecks were proven and measurable.