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Technical skill is the most important factor for startup founders
“Being technical is far and away the most important criterion that sort of drives success. Basically, you can't have too many technical people On a founding team.”
Every consumer web startup will eventually either rebrand or fail
“I think if you're doing particularly a consumer web startup, you have to look at it. It's just a matter of when, not if, because every company rebrands at some point, unless you fail.”
Board seats are immutable commitments requiring extensive founder diligence
“When you agree to take someone out of your board and raise a bunch of money from someone, just how long-term sort of immutable the commitment is. I think if a lot of founders realized that fully, they would do more work and more diligence and spend more, more …”
Achieving 100% of OKRs indicates sandbagging and conservative goal-setting
“If you're doing it right, then on average, you're averaging about 70% accomplishment as a company. And if you're getting close to a hundred, it means that you're really sandbagging and that you're not setting aggressive enough goals.”
Blogging and open-sourcing code act as force multipliers in recruiting
“I think people tend to be a little bit myopic and not invest in sort of employer brand building stuff that can actually be really impactful. So, you know, a few examples of that are blogging about the things that you're doing, open sourcing software, Both of t…”