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Head count is no longer the hot success indicator, says a Y Combinator partner.
“It’s the right time to hire when things are so busy that you can’t even find a slot in your calendar to do an interview with a candidate,” YC partner Gustaf Alströmer said in an episode of YC’s “Office Hours” podcast released on Tuesday.
He said this is when things are at their “breaking point” and the cofounders must work beyond their regular schedules to keep things running.
Alströmer, who worked as a product lead at Airbnb from 2012 to 2017, added that hiring can take about three months, and founders should look out for early signs.
“An early indicator of that moment is that there’s a specific thing in the company that’s breaking or about to break. It’s either engineering or it’s sales or onboarding,” he said. He added, “You have to be honest with yourself. Are these early indicators, or are they just my hopes that they’re going to be early indicators?”
Y Combinator is a San Francisco-based startup accelerator and venture capital firm that provides seed funding and mentorship to early-stage companies. It has funded over 5,000 companies, including Airbnb, DoorDash, and Instacart.
On the podcast, Alströmer said head count growth should not be confused with startup growth.
“It’s a dangerous thing to start thinking about hiring as a success metric. Hiring is not a success metric at all,” he said. “It’s sort of like a way to not go under or have a functioning company fail.”
He said that many YC startups now say they want to be a billion-dollar company with 10 people.
YC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Startup founders and venture capitalists are joining the Big Tech bandwagon of wanting to do more with less, especially in the age of AI.
Across the industry, executives are touting the use of AI agents, which can perform tasks like taking customer service calls or booking travel instead of human employees.
Executives have also highlighted “vibe coding” tools that allow software engineers to write code faster and with fewer human resources.
Tech giants like Intel, Meta, and Amazon are embracing the “great flattening” — cutting middle-level management in favor of more streamlined teams and fewer hierarchy tiers, which they say should lead to less bureaucracy.
In May, Business Insider reported that at least 12 AI startups valued over $1 billion have teams of 50 people or fewer. These include OpenAI’s former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence and Magic, which is backed by Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt and Sequoia Capital.
Alströmer’s idea of keeping things lean with a low head count echoes the memos the CEOs of Amazon and Shopify sent their employees in the past year.
“We want to operate like the world’s largest startup,” Amazon’s Andy Jassy wrote in a letter last September. “That means having a passion for constantly inventing for customers, strong urgency (for most big opportunities, it’s a race!), high ownership, fast decision-making, scrappiness and frugality, deeply-connected collaboration.”
In a memo to employees that Shopify’s Tobias Lütke shared on social media in April, he wrote: “Before asking for more head count and resources, teams must demonstrate why they cannot get what they want done using AI.”
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On a visit to Israel, the US vice-president said Washington would not set a deadline for the group to disarm under the US-brokered deal
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JD Vance has expressed “great optimism” that the Gaza truce would hold, during a visit to Israel aimed at shoring up support for a ceasefire and postwar reconstruction plans.
The top United Nations court will rule on Wednesday on Israel’s obligations towards agencies providing humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza, as aid groups scramble to scale up assistance after a ceasefire. Judges at the International Court of Justice in The Hague have been asked for an “advisory opinion” laying out Israel’s duty to facilitate aid in Gaza.
At a press conference in Israel on Tuesday, JD Vance referred to Hamas as a “terrorist organisation” and said the Israeli army was “defending itself” throughout the conflict. He said there is “a lot of work left to do” and that it is going to take a “long time” and thanked the Israeli government.
Vance said that unless Hamas disarms, “very bad things are going to happen”. But he declined to put a deadline on Hamas disarming, adding: “I don’t think it’s actually advisable to say this has to be done in a week.”
Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner said there had been “surprisingly strong communication” between the United Nations and Israel over humanitarian aid. He echoed Vance’s comments about people “getting a little hysterical about supposed incursions” of the ceasefire.
International organisations said they were scaling up humanitarian aid entering Gaza, while Hamas-led security forces launched a crackdown against what it called price gouging by private merchants. The World Food Program said it had sent more than 530 trucks into Gaza in the past 10 days, enough to feed nearly half a million people for two weeks. That’s still well under the 500 to 600 that entered daily before the war.
Israel urged Canadian prime minister Mark Carney to drop his pledge to honour the international criminal court’s arrest warrant for prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he travelled to the country. Carney was asked in an interview with Bloomberg published last week if he would fulfil the commitment of his predecessor Justin Trudeau to arrest Netanyahu on war crimes charges if he came to Canada, to which he replied “yes”.
The Gaza health ministry said that Israel has transferred the bodies of 15 further Palestinian people to Gaza as part of the ceasefire. The International Committee of the Red Cross handed over the bodies to the Nasser hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, it said.
The EU has been criticised for pausing sanctions against Israel’s government in response to Donald Trump’s peacemaking efforts in the Middle East, as the fragile ceasefire came under threat. After meeting EU foreign ministers on Monday, the European foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, announced a pause on efforts to suspend preferential trade with Israel and sanctions against people responsible for fuelling the conflict on both sides.
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Liberal minister Jane Hume earlier described calls for the former prime minister to be removed as ambassador as a ‘little bit churlish’
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Sussan Ley has walked back her calls for Kevin Rudd to be sacked as Australia’s ambassador to the US, after earlier saying his position was “untenable” following comments from the US president.
The former Australian prime minister sat across from Donald Trump on Tuesday as he inked a deal on critical mineralswith Anthony Albanese in a bid to break China’s stronghold on the market.
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