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did you consider other people and the relative happened to win out fair and square? or did you just wing it



I was a solo founder with no real network of suitable people for this kind of job, the first employee was secretary/marketing assistance. I didn't have time or experience for serious recruiting and didn't particularly care about it at that point (was busy planning for scalability, writing forum software...). Thus I was grateful for the help and considered the VCs responsible for the result, the employee was paid with their money anyway. So everyone involved was OK with the outcome, I suppose.




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