Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.

If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

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

You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.

Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.