Experience matters for some roles and not others.

Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.

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

In addition to relentlessly resourceful, you want a tough and a calm cofounder.

I myself used to believe ideas didn't matter that much, but I'm very sure that's wrong now.

For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.

I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.