Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same.

The right thing to do is to thank them for their work, let people know that they're moving on, and ... you don't really have to explain all their personal details. It's more important to leave them with their dignity... and let them go on to live another day. Remember, what you say at that meeting, that's their reputation.

The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.

There are no silver bullets.

Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.