What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.

... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.

If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.

Some day everyone will find out everyone else's comp, if it's all over the place, it will be a complete meltdown disaster

To get the very best people- they have a lot of great options, and so it can easily take a year to recruit someone.

As you grow, it feels hopelessly corporate but it really is worth putting in place these compensation bands.

You never want to be in a place where an employee has vested 3 out of the 4 years of stock and they start thinking about leaving.