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

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

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.

In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

Don't punk out and don't quit.

The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that's at least 10 times better at doing something than the current prevailing way of doing that thing. Two or three times better will not be good enough to get people to switch to the new thing fast enough or in large enough volume to matter.

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