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.

The actual, the forming of ties with a group of people around you where they help you grow as a professional, solve problems, get opportunities, and you help them, is actually the constitutive base of the foundation of a strong, modern career.

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

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.

If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're not committed to winning.