... you can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire? And that's a tough bar.

Every first time founder waits too long, everyone hopes that an employee will turn around. But the right answer is to fire fast.

You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.

It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter.

If you don't love and believe in what you're building, you're likely to give up at some point along the way.

The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high.

Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.