Employees will only add more value over time.
It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.
What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.
Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.
You want to continue to be run by great products, not process for it's own sake.
You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.