Amir Elaguizy

“They don't want to show anybody anything they're doing until it's perfect, right? And that's death in a startup. You have to be moving fast. You have to get the right thing out as quickly as possible, which means showing people things when they're half built a…”

“If somebody is surprised by the fact that you're letting them go for performance reasons, that means that you as a leader have really failed at communicating expectations and the fact that they're falling short of those expectations. That doesn't mean, that do…”

“A lot of times if you can spot those people and you can invest in them, they will turn out to be much, much, much better than the top guy for your company because they have this, they're hyper loyal to you for giving them the opportunity investing in them.”

“Involve your family. So I bring my wife and son to company events and game nights, and I always have, and I encourage my team to do the same. Because you will be sacrificing for your company if you have any level of traction. And there'll be that, they will be…”

“Amazon's actually really bad for that, especially for discovering new products, because Amazon services, you know, the best hairbrush, not the best hairbrush for Shetland ponies, right?”

“Marketplaces like Amazon and just increased competition on the internet in general are driving margins lower for e-commerce merchants. They're making it harder to differentiate or build a real brand because, I mean, I don't even know who I buy my things from a…”

“The hardest thing is being judged when trying to navigate an extremely uncertain decision process. So everybody has an opinion, but you're the only one who actually knows how much, you know, money and each decision will leave you within the bank and that the v…”

“When somebody talks to me about how they're an expert at something, I really don't want to work with them because it means that they're not going to be flexible going forward.”

“So with your foundational people, you can invest heavily in them, both from a compensation standpoint, equity is especially, but also just from investing your time and giving them ownership over things that you need to be working well for a very long period of…”

“My first profitable venture was actually a poker bot that I wrote myself with one of my best friends that made a few 100,000 dollars playing poker on the internet.”