... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.

At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.

You also want people who are maniacally determined and that is slightly different than having a risk tolerant attitude.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.

The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.

You can't be focussed without really great communication

You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.