So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.

Every first time founder waits too long, everyone hopes that an employee will turn around. But the right answer is to fire fast.

It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup to be successful.

Companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it.

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

... how much time you should be spending on hiring? The answer is 0 or 25 percent.

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