... 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'll get more support on a hard, important, project than a derivative one.

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.

There are 3 things I look for when I hire people. Are they smart? Do they get things done? Do I want to spend a lot of time around them?

In the beginning of a company, there is no management and this actually works really well.

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

Before 20 or 25 employees, most companies are structured with everyone reporting to the founder. It's totally flat.