Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.

Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn't match... them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That's the #1 reason this fails. And that's generally a good place to start: Here's where we are and here's what I didn't recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating

Your employees know each other better than they know you.

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'

It's hard in daily life. It's even harder in management because it's the stress of the moment.

Volatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing.