Now, in economic crises times, the kind of things you're looking at is it's generally harder to get capital, revenue growth may be more, revenue lines may be unstable or growth may be less easy to predict that you're going to get to. And so what you do is you take a certain conservative approach of when, as all entrepreneurs should do, you plan for both good luck and bad luck, you put extra time on, "Okay, if I have bad luck, what do I do about that?"
Reid HoffmanPeople who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.
Reid HoffmanThis is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.
Reid HoffmanIn software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really matters.
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