Making Your First Hire: A Step-by-Step Guide for Founders

Your first employee is the most consequential hire you will make. Here is how to do it correctly from job design through day one.

Hiring employee number one is different from every hire that follows. There is no HR team, no onboarding program, no precedent inside your company. Most founders wing it and create legal and cultural problems that take years to untangle. Here is the right way to approach it.