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Employees will only add more value over time.

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.

If someone is getting every decision wrong, that's when you need to act, and at that point it'll be painfully aware to everyone.

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

... you can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire? And that's a tough bar.

We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.

People that are really smart and that can learn new things can almost always find a role in the company as time goes on.

You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.