Experience matters for some roles and not others.

Employees will only add more value over time.

A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.

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

If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.

If you look at successful pivots, they almost always are a pivot into something that the founder wanted. Not a random made up idea.

A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.