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

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

I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.

Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.

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

At YC we have this public phrase, and it's relentlessly resourceful.

As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.