Startup Success

“Tam is not an ingredient for startup success. That's like a feature of the world. And so I think Focusing too much on the big problems and why this is a great problem to solve or whatever is a bit of a distraction from the real core point of here's a buyer. Th…”

“Mental health is upstream of startup success, and physical health is upstream of mental health.”

“There's just no silver bullet about when to know to persist versus when to know when to pivot. That probably is the singular biggest determinant of success is.”

“I've always believed that success comes from privileged insight. If you don't know something more, Then someone else, you know, why would your business be successful?”

“The most successful companies are highly correlated with timing, first of all. So are you in a bear market or a bull market? That's the number one correlation between success and failure in business. Number two correlating success factor is the market that you…”

“And the role that gender plays is quite frankly a very, very, very small signal. You know, a lot of different things it takes to be successful.”

“The most important thing is obviously timing, right? Team, product... Timing, timing, timing. I mean, the culture stuff gets, gets sorted with team and timing.”