When you are starting a company, the people you hire first are more than just team members; they are your cultural Co-founders. Their skills and capacities will not only determine what your company can do, they’ll determine who your company can be. The Genetics of your company - It's culture - is set by those first employees.
And reality is that it is very hard to recover from an early bad hire. A bad hire In the first 40 is fatal to the company. And hence it is very important that the founder itself should sit for interviews to hire first 40 employees and identify the qualified candidate and decide whether they are a strong cultural match or you will have to develop a strong system for establishing the cultural fit.
Even if after hiring you feel that someone is not a good fit for the company it is better to replace them with the right candidate, but the founder must personally look into the hiring process at least for the first 40 members of the team.
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