Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

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

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

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

The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

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