Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.

You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be at.

The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.