Growing your team too quickly is one of the worst mistakes you can make
I know this might seem like odd advice coming from someone who helps companies build out their product teams, but honestly, growing too quickly (especially in the wrong areas) will lead to a world of pain.
Killing Features to Improve your Product
If we accept that 50% of features deployed fail to have the intended impact, then just like technical debt we need to have a regular process and commitment to actively prune these failed experiments.
The true cost of product team hiring is massive
When you load in the persons salary, your time, your teams time, fees, and the time it takes for someone to get onboarded and start being productive, the figure gets big very quickly (some estimate in the region of £200k).