If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.
... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.
Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.
You should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do.
You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly and then quickly expand.
I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.