What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try and innovate.

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

You can win with the best product, the best price, or the best experience.

You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.

In the early days of a startup, people's compensation is whatever you negotiate with a founder and it's all over the place.

You don't get to make their decisions but you do get to choose the decision makers.

You have to let your team get all the credit for all the good stuff that happens, and you take responsibility for the bad stuff.