[michaelrwolfe1]

Nepotisms and cliques are not good, and I'm not defending them - you should never recommend someone into a company unless you think they kick ass, and if you are a founder you should work very hard to keep the number of people who have worked together to a minority, otherwise the new folks will feel like outsiders.

But it certainly is the case that the kind of people you want to hire are the kind where anyone who has worked with that person would say, "I'd love to work with them again."