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

To get the very best people- they have a lot of great options, and so it can easily take a year to recruit someone.

You should always know how you're doing against your metrics. You should always have a weekly review meeting every week.

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

You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.

One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.

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