Instead of hiring strictly in Silicon Valley, one of the most expensive labor markets in the world, they built a distributed team in the US and Latin America to hire top engineering talent.
At first, Sagi invested his own capital into the business and tapped friends and family as their first investors. Instead of hiring strictly in Silicon Valley, one of the most expensive labor markets in the world, they built a distributed team in the US and Latin America to hire top engineering talent. They built out the entire platform and once they had a working product, they started pitching Hourly to investors.