First 50 hires, founder-led HR, when to hire your first people lead, equity and offers without a template.
For: Founders, early-stage operators
What to actually do (and stop doing) as a founder hiring your way from 5 to 50.
A decision framework for founders: the signals that say it's time, which role to hire first, what the first 90 days should produce, and how to pay for it.
First-time founders make their most expensive mistakes in offer letters and equity grants. Mis-grants are nearly impossible to unwind. This is a plain-English guide to building offers, equity ranges by stage, cliff and vesting standards, 409A and FMV traps, and the legal touch points you cannot skip.