If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.

For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.

People that are really smart and that can learn new things can almost always find a role in the company as time goes on.

Every company has a rocky beginning.

I care much more about the growth rate of the market than it's current size and I also care if there's any reason it's going to top out.

If you don't love and believe in what you're building, you're likely to give up at some point along the way.

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