The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.

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

You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.

In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years.

If it works out, you're going to be working on this for 10 years.