The Layers Framework
As your company grows, you tend to add people in “layers”.
- The top layer is the first founder or founders. There may be 1, 2, 3, or more of you, but you all start working at the same time, and you all take the same risk.
- The second layer is the first real employees. By the time you hire this layer, you’ve got cash coming in from somewhere (investors or customers — doesn’t matter). These people didn’t take as much risk.
- The third layer is later employees. By the time they joined the company, it was going pretty well.
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