“Hire Fast, Fire Fast” – Another Startup Cliché
The startup world is full of rules of thumb that sound impressive but are often highly overrated. Such a cliché is the “Hire fast, fire fast” concept – the idea that speed is everything when building a team. It sounds dynamic, aligns with the “move fast and break things” mentality, but… does it actually work? In fact startups that blindly follow this approach may end up trapped in an endless cycle of hiring and firing instead of actually building a team that delivers results.
