You want to continue to be run by great products, not process for it's own sake.

One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.

For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.

... 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.

Growth solves (nearly) all problems

It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.

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