Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.

As you grow, it feels hopelessly corporate but it really is worth putting in place these compensation bands.

Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers.

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

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

... and you can only have 2 or 3 things everyday, because everything else will just come at you; you know fires in a day.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.