... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.

You have to let your team get all the credit for all the good stuff that happens, and you take responsibility for the bad stuff.

For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.

... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.

Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.

The best people know that they should join a rocketship.

As you grow, the productivity I think, goes down with the square of the number of employees if you don't make an effort.