So two of my oldest friends/(former colleges) in tech recently approached me for advice: They have exited the 9-figure ARR SaaS app they built from scratch and asked me how likely it would be to find a an early-to-mid-stage startup that would consider hiring a senior team of 7 devs (avg. 10 years experience specially in high-scalability, AI and low-level coding) as a package deal (they have been working together for a long time and want to keep doing so).<p>Is this incredibly unorthodox or if the talent and team are sufficient good are there some companies out there that would consider them all together? They're open to everything from medium-term contract work to FTE to an acquihire (they've built a new thing already but it's not ready for prime-time so currently just some decent IP and team of coding ninjas with extra bandwidth.<p>My gut is that unless they seriously go the Acquihire route it's going to be damn hard to find one company to hire a whole team (despite the track record and skillset) at once so maybe it's a waste of time trying to reach out to do so. Or maybe I'm wrong and would love to hear people's opinions.<p>Finally, if anyone does have experience putting together the necessary materials to go to 'market' with an acquihire effort I'd love to hear what steps/collateral are needed.<p>Thanks in Advance!
> 7 devs (avg. 10 years experience specially in high-scalability, AI and low-level coding)...<p>First Action: Define WHO exactly you want to work for as a team. Create a Top 10 List of targets that make sense to the entire group.<p>Relative to go-to-market materials; consider an Oren Klaff style presentation. > <a href="https://pitchanything.com/" rel="nofollow">https://pitchanything.com/</a><p>Start with The Big Idea. Naturally, you will also want refreshed, up-to-date CVs for everyone.<p>In my experience, the real challenge isn’t finding potential employers—- it’s keeping all those individual team members together. Bon Chance!
From time to time I come across some person who is hiring a large number of people. For instance, I know somebody who wanted to hire 20 people for Barclay's bank to develop a web site for their new credit card. Half of those would have been in Delaware, half in Henderson, NV.<p>He was scratching his head about how to do it, but if someone like that could hire a team instead of an individual they could get their job done quicker.