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

AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.

The single word that matters most I think to keep the company productive as it grows is alignment.

It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.

So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.

The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already know.

You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.