I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.

It's really easy to get PR with no results & it actually feels like you're really actually cool, but in a year you'll still have nothing.

Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.

You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly and then quickly expand.

Share results (financial and key metrics) with the company every month.

In the beginning of a company, there is no management and this actually works really well.

There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea - not a pivot.