5️⃣ The First Five Hires At Gusto, The $10 Billion HR Disruptor
Introducing First Five, a new video series where growth stage companies look back on their first five hires, customers, and launches. In the first episode, YC Managing Director Anu Hariharan sits down with Tomer London, the co-founder and CPO of Gusto, to look back on the company’s first five hires.

 6 Founding Engineer Roles at W22 YC startups
Joining an early-stage startup provides a unique opportunity to impact the future of the company. You'll have significant ownership and responsibility over your work, and you'll see it directly impact the company's future. If you're up for the adventure, here are 6 founding engineer roles at the latest Y Combinator startups.

• How “let it fail” leads to simpler code (yiming.dev)
• A systems model of anxiety-driven procrastination (axle.design)
• The Book of Experiments (1958) [pdf] (arvindguptatoys.com)
• Scratch is a big deal (bryanbraun.com)
• The Incredibly Stupid One (lowellmilkencenter.org)
• Lessons I wish I had been taught (1996) (alumni.media.mit.edu)
• Six programming languages I’d like to see (buttondown.email)
• Lessons from Writing a Compiler (borretti.me)