Opinion

June 9, 2021

Why a people person should be one of your startup’s first 10 hires

Given how important hiring is for your business, startups should be investing early in their people team.


Ben Butler

4 min read

Founders, imagine there’s a product that takes up to 50% of your  time every week and, after AWS, is one of your largest expenses. Imagine that product is the infrastructure that you build everything on top of. Now, imagine not dedicating any headcount to that. 

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