You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

I myself used to believe ideas didn't matter that much, but I'm very sure that's wrong now.

For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.

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

... We probably funded a rate of something like one out of ten solo teams.

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.