Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.

Once your product is working, switch from not caring about this to caring about this a little bit.

Experience matters for some roles and not others.

Before 20 or 25 employees, most companies are structured with everyone reporting to the founder. It's totally flat.

You certainly don't need to have everything figured out in the path from here to world domination.

Facebook has this famous poster that says move fast and break things. But at the same time they manage to be obsessed with quality.

Companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it.