You don't get to make their decisions but you do get to choose the decision makers.

You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.

A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.

Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed

Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea.

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.

Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.