The way to have a company that executes well is you have to execute well yourself.

If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out.

Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first...at least 100 employees and often many more.

Most of the best hires that I've made in my entire life have never done that thing before.

One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.

... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.

You never want to be in a place where an employee has vested 3 out of the 4 years of stock and they start thinking about leaving.