What happens when you stop hiring like a Silicon Valley VC and start hiring like someone who actually wants their company to survive?

In this episode, we break down the mythology of “hire fast, fire fast” and uncover how incentive structures, investor expectations, and startup hero worship push founders into rapid-fire decisions that weaken culture, waste capital, and sabotage long-term resilience.

Then we flip the script.

We explore what it looks like to build a camel—a business designed for durability and stability rather than hype cycles. That means hiring slow, evaluating soft skills seriously, compensating candidates fairly for real-world tests, building multiparty hiring processes, and treating firing as a last resort instead of a reflex.

You’ll walk away with a clearer sense of how to hire for humans, build teams that adapt under pressure, and create organizations that endure instead of evaporate.

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