Keep salaries low and equity high. Keep the organization as flat as you can.

Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.

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

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.

As you grow, it feels hopelessly corporate but it really is worth putting in place these compensation bands.

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

It's better to have a few users love your product than for a lot of users to sort of like it.