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Your friends are terrible hires

Your friends are terrible hires. Not because they lack skill. Because you'll never treat them like employees. I did it years ago. Almost destroyed friendships...

Nicolas Cava

Nicolas Cava

Fractional CTO

Hiring

Cheap talent is high-interest debt

Cheap talent is high-interest debt. You think a $40K hire saves cash. It doesn't. It just pushes the cost to the rebuild. Cheap engineers build what you ask...

Nicolas Cava

Nicolas Cava

Fractional CTO

Nicolas Cava

Early-stage CTO helping founders build scalable software and teams from MVP to $5M+ ARR without burnout.

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