If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.

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

The thirteenth search engine- and without all the features of a web portal, most people thought that was pointless.

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go.

In the early days of a startup, people's compensation is whatever you negotiate with a founder and it's all over the place.

Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.