The $50k mistake every founder makes with their first ops...

Just watched another founder hire a "head of operations" at 15 people who's never actually run ops before. They're paying senior money for someone to learn on the job while basic stuff like expense management and contract tracking falls apart.

I made this exact mistake - hired my college roommate as "VP Operations" because I trusted him, not because he knew ops. Burned through $60k in salary plus another $40k cleaning up the mess when our bookkeeping was so broken we almost missed a bridge round. Trust matters, but competence matters more when you're burning cash.