Developing a personal connection with anyone you're trying to do a big deal with is really important.

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

Good startups usually take 10 years.

The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.

Facebook has this famous poster that says move fast and break things. But at the same time they manage to be obsessed with quality.

I prefer to invest in a company that's going after a small but rapidly growing market than a big but slow growing one.

When it comes to starting startups, in many ways, it's easier to start a hard startup than an easy startup.