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What Founders Get Wrong (& Right) when Hiring Founding Teams

Hosted by HigherPeople and Afore Capital

When
6:00 PM
Where
SOMA
Format
Panel / Fireside Chat
What Founders Get Wrong (& Right) when Hiring Founding Teams artwork

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Join us to kick off SF Tech Week! Katy Stover Fox, Founder/CEO of HigherPeople, sits down with a few of Afore Capital's portfolio founders to talk the do's and don'ts of hiring your founding team: who to hire first, how to evaluate talent for early stage teams, lessons learned from being in the trenches building, and what actually breaks when hiring goes sideways (and how to fix it).

Meet your fireside chat panel: + Katy Stover Fox, Founder/CEO of HigherPeople + Bill Liu (Co-Founder at Seel) + Nick DiRienzo (Co-Founder/CTO at Mirage Security) + Kathryn Wu (Co-Founder at Openmart)

Plan for the evening: 6:00pm: fireside chat begins 6:35pm: audience Q&A 7:00pm: mingling over dinner

Closed door. Invite only. Space is limited, RSVP early.

Also hosted by rho.co! This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.

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