Every thing at a startup gets modeled after the founders. Whatever the founders do becomes the culture.

There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea - not a pivot.

For early employees you want people that have somewhat of a risk-taking attitude.

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

AirBnB happened because Brian Chesky couldn't pay his rent, but did have some space.

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

Because it's one of these sort of connections between nodes- every pair of people adds communication overhead.