If you're not in college and you don't know a cofounder, the next best thing I think is to go work at an interesting company.

We talk to a team they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will be successful.

It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.

It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

Keep salaries low and equity high. Keep the organization as flat as you can.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.