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... you should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do.

Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high.

A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.

If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.

... companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it...

At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.

Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.