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How a Failed Hire Cost One Startup 2 Million Dollars
Lucas walks through the case of a 50-person SaaS startup that made one bad senior hire and lost $2 million in six months — not just in salary, but in destroyed team velocity, missed product deadlines, and two subsequent departures. Luna pushes back on whether the CEO should have caught the red flags during the interview process. Lucas explains why traditional interviewing is terrible at predicting performance, and lays out three structural changes the startup made afterward: a pre-mortem on the hiring brief, a work-sample test, and a 30-day 'trial period' with explicit kill…
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