Just put a little pin in your mind: when you cross 50 employees, there are a new set of HR rules that you have to comply with.

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

Every thing at a startup gets modeled after the founders. Whatever the founders do becomes the culture.

You think you have this great idea that everyone's going to come join, but that's not how it works.

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.

In the early days of a startup, people's compensation is whatever you negotiate with a founder and it's all over the place.

You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.