Growing Pains: Hiring a Founding Engineer (and other early hires)

​Hiring your first few team members can shape everything that comes next.

​Join Corgi and Deel for the first event in the Growing Pains series, a series of candid talks for founders.

First up in the series: we're dealing with one of the hardest early decisions: how to find your founding engineer and first hires, convince them to join, and actually get them hired, especially if they are based in another country.

​This will be a practical, unfiltered conversation featuring founder stories and a Deel hiring and immigration expert. We’ll dig into the questions founders usually end up learning the hard way, including:

• ​finding and closing early technical talent

• ​contractor vs. full-time tradeoffs

• ​equity conversations that go sideways

• ​hiring internationally

• ​what founders wish they had known before making the hire

​"Growing Pains" will also have dinner and a decompression station with free massages, plus snacks and refreshments to keep the night relaxed!

​Agenda
5:30 PM — Doors open + networking with dinner and massage station
6:00 PM — Fireside chat + founder stories: Your First Hires
7:00 PM — Open conversation / networking
8:30 PM — Event wraps