You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.

You should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do.

Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.

AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.

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

You can't be focussed without really great communication

I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.