The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.

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.

One of the pieces of advice that we give at YC is: try to work together on a project rather than just doing an interview.

Why couldn't it have been done 2 years ago, and why will 2 years in the future be too late?

In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.

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

Startups are very hard no matter what you do; you may as well go after a big opportunity.