Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

You really need to spend a lot of your time focussing people.

As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.

The construct of a dashboard, first of all should be drafted by the founder.

Build a company that idiots could run because eventually they will.

When you start a company everything is going to feel like a mess. And it really should. If you have too much process, too much predictability, you are probably not innovating fast enough and creatively enough.

The first thing that editor does is they take out a red pen, or nowadays you go online, and they start striking things. Basically eliminating things, the biggest task of an editor is to simplify, simplify, simplify and that usually means omitting things.