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

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.

So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.

Facebook has this famous poster that says move fast and break things. But at the same time they manage to be obsessed with quality.

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

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.

Just put a little pin in your mind: when you cross 50 employees, there are a new set of HR rules that you have to comply with.