The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people

Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.

Democracy is always frustrating.

Part of what being a great founder is, is being both able to hold the belief, to think about where it is you want to be doing and want to be going, but also be smart enough that you are essentially listening to criticism, negative feedback, competitive entries.

The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.

Everyone, you know, during crises times, is much more focused on, okay, how do we get the boat completely seaworthy, sailing along well, and everything going well? And so as long as you're communicating how the general strategy of the company and how the work they can do to add to that and to make that more successful and the thing that they can contribute to that, that is generally very motivating for employees in crisis times.

We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.