You should be giving out a lot of equity to your employees.
A winning team feels good and keeps winning. A team that hasn't won in a while gets demotivated and keeps losing.
You're either not hiring at all or it's probably your single biggest block of time.
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 become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter.
The best people know that they should join a rocketship.