You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders.

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

Employees will only add more value over time.

It's better to have no cofounder than to have a bad cofounder, but it's still bad to be a solo founder.

Don't let the company get distracted or excited about other things. A common mistake is that companies get excited by their own PR.

In the beginning of a company, there is no management and this actually works really well.

... 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.