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

You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative.

You certainly don't need to have everything figured out in the path from here to world domination.

You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.

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

You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.

The second part of how to hire: try not to.