At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.

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

Every first time founder waits too long, everyone hopes that an employee will turn around. But the right answer is to fire fast.

Growth solves (nearly) all problems

You also really want to take the time to think about how the market is going to evolve.You need a market that's going to be big in 10 years.

You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.

... but actually it sucks to have a lot of employees, and you should be proud of how few employees you have.