When Should You Let An Unqualified Person Join Your Startup?

brett fox
3 min readJun 27, 2022

Years ago, I was interviewing VP Sales candidates. One of the first candidates I interviewed was someone that I quickly realized was completely wrong for the job.

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I finished the interview, and I thanked him for his time. Then, as I usually did when there was no hope of the person progressing to the next stage of my process, I told him that I wouldn’t be going…

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brett fox

I work with startup CEOs to help them grow their businesses . I built several businesses from $0 to >$100M. Learn more at https://www.brettjfox.com