Can a startup do well with mediocre early employees?

Re:Can a startup do well with mediocre early employees? by sitkack on Thursday December 07, 2023 @10:28AM (#38557396)

Not throwing shade, but how old are you and how many rodeos have you participated in?

You will work with a lot of incompetent people in your life, you will be someone else's incompetent person.

You need to figure out how to make it work, and that isn't necessarily just removing the folks that you think are the problem.

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Re:Can a startup do well with mediocre early employees? by asilia on Thursday December 07, 2023 @10:37AM (#38557525)

I'm 30 and have previously worked in one big company and one startup.

You need to figure out how to make it work --> I know I need to figure out how to make it work for myself and to do the best work I can, but I only have so much control over what other people do and how they perform. My question is more whether a startup can succeed with a few incompetent early employees. If it's unlikely, then I want to start looking elsewhere. What do you think?

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Re:Can a startup do well with mediocre early employees? by volkk on Friday December 08, 2023 @10:33AM (#38570238)

i think that's good advice if you're working in a situation where you're a cog in the wheel of a business that will still exist in 5 years. it's bad advice if every person has impact strategically and may be a big contributor to the life or death of the company.

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