When should you hire people for your business?

First hires, team size, employees versus freelancers.

Axis: hire early to buy back time … stay solo

Answers by date: 4 records in 3 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. shift and revise mean the advice changed; tension — speakers disagree.

date	who	answer	source
2020-09-01	Ali	Ali wishes he had outsourced the editing of his videos sooner, because it was a complete game changer when he did.	Gymshark, Inspirations & Pet Peeves - ONE MILLION Subscribers Q&A 00:03:02
2019-12-27 (said on 2019-12-20, implied)	Ali	revise: From The E-Myth, a book on growing a small business, Ali concludes that he made many mistakes in the early stages of his company SixMed by not delegating enough.	My Annual Review using Notion 00:07:31
2019-12-27 (said on 2019-12-20, implied)	Ali	About four to six months before, Ali started outsourcing the editing of his videos; it freed up so much of his time each week that he could go to the gym and try to eat more healthily.	My Annual Review using Notion 00:06:21
2018-06-12	Ali	To a Year 13 student wanting to start a UKCAT course company, Ali says just make a course, register the company and make a website: nothing fancy and no team needed, you can do it all yourself.	Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout 01:07:12

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