Before 20 or 25 employees, most companies are structured with everyone reporting to the founder. It's totally flat.

You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.

In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years.

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

If you're not in college and you don't know a cofounder, the next best thing I think is to go work at an interesting company.

One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.

You want to continue to be run by great products, not process for it's own sake.