Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.

The thirteenth search engine- and without all the features of a web portal, most people thought that was pointless.

When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.

Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.

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.

In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.