People that are really smart and that can learn new things can almost always find a role in the company as time goes on.

For early employees you want people that have somewhat of a risk-taking attitude.

You'll get more support on a hard, important, project than a derivative one.

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

Because it's one of these sort of connections between nodes- every pair of people adds communication overhead.

The most important thing is that there is clear reporting structure and everyone knows what it is.

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.