{"id":86744,"date":"2026-02-21T14:47:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/why-you-shouldnt-hire-until-it-hurts%e2%94%83build-mode\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T14:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:47:21","slug":"why-you-shouldnt-hire-until-it-hurts%e2%94%83build-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/why-you-shouldnt-hire-until-it-hurts%e2%94%83build-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Shouldn\u2019t Hire Until it Hurts\u2503Build Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raising a round may not be a signal to spend aggressively, and many of the best founders stay disciplined. <\/p>\n<p>Yuri <!--more--> Sagalov from General Catalyst advises to wait until the pain is real, then hire with intention. Taking your time can prevent painful layoffs, protect culture, and give your startup a longer runway to win.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full episode of Build Mode: <a href=\"http:\/\/spr.ly\/6053hiElt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/spr.ly\/6053hiElt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raising a round may not be a signal to spend aggressively, and many of the best founders stay disciplined. Yuri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}