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

You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.

If you're not in college and you don't know a cofounder, the next best thing I think is to go work at an interesting company.

For early employees you want people that have somewhat of a risk-taking attitude.

Because so few people make an actual long term commitment to what they're building, the ones that do have a huge advantage.

You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.

Good startups usually take 10 years.