Some day everyone will find out everyone else's comp, if it's all over the place, it will be a complete meltdown disaster

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

You want an idea about what you can say. I know it sounds like a bad idea but here's specifically why its actually a great one. You want to sound crazy but you want to ask to be right.

You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.

So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.

Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first...at least 100 employees and often many more.

A lot of people treat choosing their cofounder with even less importance than they put on hiring. Don't do this.