>>71820355When your company is still very small you should prioritize chemistry between talents rather than skill at any particular thing, simply because you are generally still limited in the ways you can actually leverage those skills.
There is also the fact that not many would want to join your almost unknown company without solid guarantees, and you might not even have set up a solid screening process.
For all those reason, a judicious use of nepohiring is vital at the start of any company, but on the other hand it can become a big liability when your company gets more established and the negative aspect of nepohiring start to overshadow its positive.