There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

Most things are not as risky as they seem.

You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.

The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.

You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.

A lot of people treat choosing their cofounder with even less importance than they put on hiring. Don't do this.

Founders need to figure out what the message of the company is going to be.