Because it's one of these sort of connections between nodes- every pair of people adds communication overhead.

It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter.

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.

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

You don't get to make their decisions but you do get to choose the decision makers.

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