... you can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire? And that's a tough bar.

You can basically change everything in a startup but the market.

So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.

It's better to have a few users love your product than for a lot of users to sort of like it.

The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.

Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.