One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
The biggest PR hack you can do, is not hire a PR firm.
These all sounded really bad, but they turned out to be good. If they had sounded really good, there would have been too many people working on them.
Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.
... We probably funded a rate of something like one out of ten solo teams.
The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high.