early-stage startups

“Most companies at the early stage, you know, C to A, often to B, they languish in obscurity. That's just the fate that befalls most of them. So I think a lot of people just don't even get to be noticed.”

“Some roles, like hunting roles, early in a startup's career, have tremendous variance of success. Some people crush it, a lot of people don't, and you're probably going to have to cycle through people pretty quickly.”

“Health insurance plans care a lot more about saving money than offering an engaging product and so for an early-stage startup, it's a lot harder for them to do the saving money piece, because that takes a long study to prove, and they do it eventually, but it'…”

“But when you're just starting out, You want delta force. You want resourceful people who have minimal resources, and can react in a way, and can pull other people in the company, and can do amazing things that you can't, that you don't, you know, a big sales f…”

“You should not be vertically integrating just because you can save five percent or 10% or 20, even 50% on a subcomponent that does not kind of check the box of like, does the company exist or not?”