The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.

Most investors are obsessed with the market size today and they don't think about how the market is going to evolve.

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.

You should be giving out a lot of equity to your employees.

Companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it.

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.