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The headcount was the vanity
For a decade the size of the team was the proof the company mattered. Then venture money started buying half as many people per dollar, a handful of AI startups cleared nine figures with staff you could seat at one table, and the number quietly changed sides.
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Daniel Kwame leaves Nexa to launch a climate-logistics venture
Nexa’s eleventh employee is leaving the 4,000-person logistics company to build refrigeration monitoring for the freight lanes he helped design.
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Leaving a unicorn to start over: Daniel Kwame’s second act
He was employee eleven at Nexa and watched it grow to four thousand people. At thirty-nine, he is starting again in a rented warehouse with two engineers and a spreadsheet.
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The first hire is a strategy document
Ask a founder what their company is for and you get a paragraph. Ask who they hired first and you get the answer.