Hire out of pain. Don't hire because you think you'll need someone soon or maybe sometime later. Wait until you or your team are actually hurting: working weekends, missing family dinners, dropping balls. That pain is the signal that the role is real. I learned this the hard way after watching founders (including myself) hire ahead of need and end up with people in roles that weren't fully formed yet. When you hire out of pain, you know exactly what the job is because you've been doing it yourself. You can evaluate performance because you know what good looks like. And the new hire knows you'll step back in if they fail, because you were just doing it last week.
After Brex I had decided I didn’t want to start another company. But I found my calling. I’m starting another fintech company that can change the world. I wasn’t looking to startup another startup but this one was impossible not to. The opportunity is too big. But the problem is very technically, operationally, regulatory and financially complex. So I’m looking for a founding CTO that is interested in coming in this adventure with me. It’ll be hard, it’ll take long, but it’ll be worth it.
Signs you’re a good fit:
- You're a technical dictator, not a facilitator. Consensus is cosplay for avoiding accountability.
- You've built systems where bugs mean lawsuits, not rollbacks
- You believe big engineering teams are a symptom of bad architecture and weak leadership
- You're obsessed with ontologies and data models. You know most systems are rotten at the core because engineers treat modeling as boring.
- You optimize your own taxes, loans, and entities like it's a competitive sport. You think most people leave money on the table because they're lazy.
- You've optimized your LLM setup obsessively. Engineers who use ChatGPT with default settings are bringing a mass knife to a gunfight.
- You think "speed vs. quality" is a cope for teams that are bad at both.
- Makes fun of 9-to-5 engineers that rest-and-vest
- You have an extremely high bar for talent and still aim to be the best engineer on your team. Not secretly. Openly.
- You believe the PM role exists because most engineers are lazy about understanding the problem. The best engineers make PMs redundant.
The role is in person. In the Bay Area. All-day every day. If you’re interested, send me an email at: [email protected] (we don’t have a name yet!)
Everytime I get mad at people in the cheap seats criticizing founders in the arena, I remind myself of what Giannis said. Arguably my favorite response to a reporter ever.
Este gobierno partio con la tontera extrema de Izkia Siches en el sur donde le dispararon y esta terminando con la negligencia extrema de Pardow que todos pagamos.
Espero que los chilenos no nos olvidemos de quienes son.
@cgainza Hola. ¿Dónde está la falta de respeto en encontrar demencial que un órgano del Estado (laico) solicite "pedir permisos a los espíritus" -de la creencia o cultura que sea- para autorizar construir un proyecto en plena ciudad regido por normas humanas establecidas democráticamente?
"Durante años el área legal fue vista como una función aislada del negocio. Pero eso está cambiando hacia las Legal OPS. El rol del equipo ya no puede seguir siendo artesanal, la transformación digital llegó".
Lee la columna de Leonardo Barrientos aquí:
https://t.co/tMbEBXCg5f