As you grow, it feels hopelessly corporate but it really is worth putting in place these compensation bands.

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

You need conviction in your own beliefs, and the willingness to ignore others naysaying.

I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.

You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.

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

You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative.