[georgesequeira]

Also, I realized, an over-arching concern could be: Does this promote bias?

Yes.

Especially in early-stage, it's about how fast can you go and are you iterating enough. For example: Some of the advice for hiring early stage is "hire your friends/people-you-know". Instant bias.

Over time it's about taking that risk on less-clear-thinkers to help refine their thinking or more junior folks to grow them but at the start: there is very little risk in execution that you can handle.