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Show HN: First Employees (firstemployees.io)
1 point by weitingliu on Aug 23, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


In the startup world, people always say that building an awesome team is critical to the startup’s success. But how do you decide the team composition of your first 10 hires?

As a founder I’ve always wondered, when’s the most appropriate time for your first non-technical hire? How about the first office manager? HR specialist?

To answer some of these questions, we at Codementor researched the first employees of world’s top tech companies - Airbnb, Dropbox, Uber, and more.

Take a look and learn how unicorn companies built out their early team.




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