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

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.

Every thing at a startup gets modeled after the founders. Whatever the founders do becomes the culture.

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

Good startups usually take 10 years.

You should think about for the next 10 years, you're going to be giving out 3-5% of the company every year.

Most investors are obsessed with the market size today and they don't think about how the market is going to evolve.