If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.
Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.
Talk to people no one else is talking to.
We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.
You need space to try things and create. It takes a long time to recalibrate if you let people pull at you all the time. A lot of stress comes from reacting to stuff. You have to keep a certain guard [up], if you're a creative person.
My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.