You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.

Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.

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 no cofounder than to have a bad cofounder, but it's still bad to be a solo founder.

Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.

What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.

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