In the beginning of a company, there is no management and this actually works really well.

One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.

If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.

Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.

If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.

You want to think about what is the path for my first 10 or 15 employees going to be as the company grows.

You need someone that behaves like James Bond more than you need someone that is an expert in some particular domain.