If you look at successful pivots, they almost always are a pivot into something that the founder wanted. Not a random made up idea.
You should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do.
Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.
Growth solves (nearly) all problems
... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.
Because so few people make an actual long term commitment to what they're building, the ones that do have a huge advantage.