Many founders hire just because it seems like a cool thing to do, and people always ask how many employees you have.
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It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.
One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.
Work-life balance for founders doesn't look like work-life balance for everyone else. Starting a company isn't a nine-to-six job - or a nine-to-nine job, or a nine-to-midnight job.
Successful companies hire people.
For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don't like to work for founders of startups is that they can be sensitive and protective around what they've built. You have an emotional attachment to the early marketing and technology materials, and you don't want to hear that anything's wrong with them.
Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with.
You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.
It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies.
If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.
Founders, presuming they know their customers, assume they know all the features customers need.