Every first time founder waits too long, everyone hopes that an employee will turn around. But the right answer is to fire fast.

... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.

Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally. Even if you miss, you'll probably end up in a pretty good place.

You want an idea about what you can say. I know it sounds like a bad idea but here's specifically why its actually a great one. You want to sound crazy but you want to ask to be right.

The idea should come first, the startup should come second.

These all sounded really bad, but they turned out to be good. If they had sounded really good, there would have been too many people working on them.

Just put a little pin in your mind: when you cross 50 employees, there are a new set of HR rules that you have to comply with.