Even outside of VC companies. I worked briefly for a large, old tech giant you've heard of, and was told to hire two teams of contractors. I didn't have -work- for two teams of contractors; it was all green field development and I already had a team of devs champing at the bit for any requirement product (which was -extremely- slow) actually defined, and they were sitting idle half the time as it was, and I was basically told "the roadmap says we need these two extra teams starting in a month, so hire them". So I did, reiterating my caveats. Cue two months later when leadership was asking me why the contractors weren't doing anything; isn't there -something- they could be doing?