{"id":1338,"date":"2026-04-20T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-20T08:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:00:40","slug":"your-first-10-hires-will-determine-if-you-scale-to-100m-or-die-at-10m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/04\/20\/your-first-10-hires-will-determine-if-you-scale-to-100m-or-die-at-10m\/","title":{"rendered":"Your first 10 hires will determine if you scale to $100M or die at $10M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your first 10 hires will determine if you scale to $100M or die at $10M. Most founders hire for skills. Winners hire for judgment. Skills can be taught. Judgment under pressure cannot.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2046053910071349262\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your first 10 hires will determine if you scale to $100M or die at $10M. Most founders hire for skills&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-posts","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}