Here's a good rule of thumb: don't worry about a competitor at all, until they're actually beating you with a real shipped product.

AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.

It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.

You should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do.

It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.

As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.

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