By the way, that's my number one piece of advice if you're going to join a startup: pick a rocket ship.

You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.

Because it's one of these sort of connections between nodes- every pair of people adds communication overhead.

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

As long as you keep doing the right thing and have the best product, you can beat the bigger company.

Why couldn't it have been done 2 years ago, and why will 2 years in the future be too late?

Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.