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Most pre-Series-A AI founders hire in panic order, not strategic order. The result is a team that can't ship the product the company actually needs. The hire-by-hire plan I'd run, who comes first, and why hire #4 isn't another engineer.
A 4-person engineering team is the most overlooked unit of management in startups. Big enough that the lead can't write all the code. Small enough that hiring an EM kills velocity. Five rituals that work at this size, three traps to avoid, and the signal that tells you it's time to evolve.