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"We probably need to hire someone for this." Every founder has said it. Whether it's a major new account, investor pressure to scale, or simply reaching the limits of your own bandwidth after an 85-hour week, the instinct is immediate: throw headcount at the problem. This is the founder's trap. You confuse activity with progress and hope that a new salary will magically organize the chaos. But hiring under pressure without a defined process is just institutionalizing your dysfunction. You aren't scaling a business; you're scaling a mess.