Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.

Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.

When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.

I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.

If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.

A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.