[dbnoch]

I can emphasize with you, as a first hire is always a tough decision. Having bad first hires can set a company back, make it harder to hire others in the future and be bad for moral (which makes it that much more important).

What an employee does outside of work should not matter in your decision (tons of people have side gigs, for example).

What should matter is the expectations and the output of the employee. If you feel that its important to have someone working full-time, in the office 5 days a week, then I think that's perfectly OK (in the same way that its OK if an organization cannot handle remote teams). This is a decision you would be making. If you wanted 5 days a week, that would disqualify this candidate (at least for now).

IMO (and experience), the lack of commitment is the `three days a week` instead of full-time.