At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.

It's better to have no cofounder than to have a bad cofounder, but it's still bad to be a solo founder.

You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.

The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.

Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.

It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.

Growth solves (nearly) all problems