If it works out, you're going to be working on this for 10 years.

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

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

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

The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.

Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

Most of the best hires that I've made in my entire life have never done that thing before.