It's really easy to get PR with no results & it actually feels like you're really actually cool, but in a year you'll still have nothing.

If you look at successful pivots, they almost always are a pivot into something that the founder wanted. Not a random made up idea.

... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.

... 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.

The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.

We talk to a team they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will be successful.

... and you can only have 2 or 3 things everyday, because everything else will just come at you; you know fires in a day.