The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.

What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try and innovate.

Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.

Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.

You have to let your team get all the credit for all the good stuff that happens, and you take responsibility for the bad stuff.

I myself used to believe ideas didn't matter that much, but I'm very sure that's wrong now.

You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.