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

A related advantage of mission oriented ideas, is that you yourself will be dedicated to them.

... you can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire? And that's a tough bar.

One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying.

You should think about for the next 10 years, you're going to be giving out 3-5% of the company every year.

You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.

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