Experience matters for some roles and not others.

As long as you keep doing the right thing and have the best product, you can beat the bigger company.

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

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

You should think about for the next 10 years, you're going to be giving out 3-5% of the company every year.

There are 3 things I look for when I hire people. Are they smart? Do they get things done? Do I want to spend a lot of time around them?

You don't need to make the structure complicated, in fact you shouldn't. All you need is for every employee to know who their manager is.