Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead.

If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness.

EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.

A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.

There are still many large white spaces on the map of human knowledge. You can go discover them. So do it. Get out there and fill in the blank spaces. Every single moment is a possibility to go to these new places and explore them.

The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.