You thought hiring help would lighten your load. Instead, it made everything harder. You’re fixing sloppy work. Re-explaining things. Spending all day hand holding and wondering if it’s just faster to do it yourself. If your team can’t scale your impact, you don’t have a team,  you have overhead. And it’s an expensive way to burn through your runway and your sanity quickly. And then you have to fire them. You’re left wondering why your first hire failed (or your 3rd or your 10th).

In cases like this, most founders think