What to take away
- 1.CEO is the best recruiter for the first 20 hires, a tax after that.
- 2.Hand off around 25–30 employees or 3+ active loops simultaneously.
- 3.Stay in the final round for senior hires — that part is irreplaceable.
Your time is the most expensive recruiting input. Every hour on a hiring loop is an hour not on product or customers.
The threshold is roughly 25–30 employees, or when you're running 3+ active loops simultaneously.
“Your time is the most expensive recruiting input.”
Even after you hand it off, stay in the final round for senior hires. That's the part nobody else can do.
Try this Monday
- Count active loops you're personally interviewing in this week.
- If 3+, list which loops a head of talent could own end-to-end.
- Block your calendar for senior-only finals; release everything else.
When you're ready to stop doing this manually, this is what Aire does — for the first 50 hires and the next 500.
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