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.

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

Most startups are not nearly focussed enough. They work hard...maybe, but they don't work hard on the right things.

No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

Study the unusually successful people you know, and you will find them imbued with enthusiasm for their work which is contagious. Not only are they themselves excited about what they are doing, but they also get you excited

I myself used to believe ideas didn't matter that much, but I'm very sure that's wrong now.