First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up

It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.

A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.

When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.

We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning

What great founders do is seek the networks that will be essential to their task... Usually it's best to have two or three people on a team rather than a solo founder.

So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.