... fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.

You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly and then quickly expand.

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

Companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it.

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

The way to have a company that executes well is you have to execute well yourself.

You want an idea about what you can say. I know it sounds like a bad idea but here's specifically why its actually a great one. You want to sound crazy but you want to ask to be right.