The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already know.

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

To get the very best people- they have a lot of great options, and so it can easily take a year to recruit someone.

... We probably funded a rate of something like one out of ten solo teams.

When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.