You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.

Employees will only add more value over time.

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

Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.

You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.

You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.

We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.