Paul Graham: Founders regret hiring outside execs, never regret promoting from within
ycombinator · x · 2026-10-08
Y Combinator reshares Paul Graham's observation: successful founders always wish they had hired fewer top managers from outside, and he has never met one who regretted promoting fewer people from within — a distilled lesson on building startup leadership teams.
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