EP 218: Don't Hire

That's interesting.

So I'm curious if that's advice that you'd give across the board in terms of taking an exit.

Because for instance, I'm building June right now, which is an AI interviewer for a very early stage.

But we have pilots coming up with really big names.

And we'll be making some pretty cool announcements soon.

But these are very well-known tech companies that we have in our pipeline.

And we've added probably... 10 deals to our pipeline in the last month or so.

Awesome.

In five weeks.

And so it's like, it's one of those things that was moving really slow for about a year and now like adoption of this tech is like out of nowhere exploding.

And so there's like, there's going to be, I think, a lot of opportunities for very early stage strategic acquisitions.

But it's like, I kind of have mixed feelings about it.

Like, we could...

Part of it feels like the market's going to be so saturated.

A lot of these all-in-one products are going to be offering this.

We're going to be coming up and competing against them.

Going to a very early stage exit might make sense.

But then it's also like, I don't know if I'd really want to do something.

I would almost like to build the company, get it further along, have a bigger exit.

You know what I mean? Versus just getting us to...

I don't know, maybe mid-six figures in ARR, hopefully, in the next few months.

Like, we're very early, right? But, you know, that's sort of like something we're kind of thinking, being a co-founder, thinking through.

It's like, do we want to just... get into the six-figure ARR range and then basically sell to an all-in-one product that wants to add this? Or do we just continue to push best-in-class, run solo, and maybe fundraise? I mean,

look, there's no easy answer to that, to be clear.

And I think the market will dictate that for you to some extent.