AirBnB happened because Brian Chesky couldn't pay his rent, but did have some space.

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

Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first...at least 100 employees and often many more.

I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.

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

If you can just learn to think about the market first, you will have a big leg up on most people starting startups.

... but actually it sucks to have a lot of employees, and you should be proud of how few employees you have.