More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders.

The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high.

In the early days of a startup, people's compensation is whatever you negotiate with a founder and it's all over the place.

You need someone that behaves like James Bond more than you need someone that is an expert in some particular domain.

If you don't love and believe in what you're building, you're likely to give up at some point along the way.

It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter.

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