What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?

You don't need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.

Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.

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.