You should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do.

You should be giving out a lot of equity to your employees.

AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.

What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try and innovate.

Unpopular but right is what you're going for.

If you look at successful pivots, they almost always are a pivot into something that the founder wanted. Not a random made up idea.

Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.