Sublime

Until you're 10+ in a startup , the only roles that exist are head of get shit done & chief common fucking sense officer.

Innovation is art - it can’t be scaled. Scaling a team creates a hierarchy to reduce coordination costs. Hierarchy introduces the Principal-Agent problem. Agents optimize for status and cohesion over correctness. Going from zero to one requires a founder-led flat team.

All of my startup experience summed up: The right person with the precise right focus and completely unshackled is 10x as effective as 10 pretty smart people working hard in a vague general direction