If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.

Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.

Because it's one of these sort of connections between nodes- every pair of people adds communication overhead.

You want an idea that not many other people are working on, and it's okay if it doesn't sound big at first.

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

Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers.