Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.

If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out.

Two other things that we hear again and again from our founders, they wish they had done earlier, and that is... simply writing down how you do things and why you do things.

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

The way to have a company that executes well is you have to execute well yourself.

Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?

You should think about for the next 10 years, you're going to be giving out 3-5% of the company every year.