I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.

Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.

AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.

You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.

You never want to be in a place where an employee has vested 3 out of the 4 years of stock and they start thinking about leaving.

Unpopular but right is what you're going for.

... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.