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

A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.

The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already know.

You can basically change everything in a startup but the market.

What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

Before product/market fit, your only job that matters is to build a great product.