Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea.

Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.

I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.

One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.

The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high.

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.