Always appreciate your advice, my friend. When we started Forever Labs, I hired a payroll company to handle the business end of paying out first couple employees, and that worked really well. In general the reason I don't really like hourly pay is that I think it's demotivating. I want to pay for value and not for time. If my hire can do as good of a job doing something in 6 hours as someone else can do in 8, then I don't see why that person should be punished for efficiency. And of course the converse is true too, that one shouldn't be rewarded for going slow. The way I see it, the labor component of project type work (as opposed to shift work, which is obviously way different) is worth X and that's what should be compensated. But that's just me. I totally get that everyone sees the world differently. I'm really excited to build something form the ground up with no predefined HR policies. Experiment and adapt. Gonna be a ton of fun.