If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.

If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.

Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.

We're better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting - 'cause you're never going to be right every time. You can handicap it. You can point to certain elements that make it work, and many of those elements come straight out of epidemiology, right?

If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.

Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are.

Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.