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“We believe entrepreneurs are the people who drive society forward more in many cases, more, more so many cases than nonprofits and government organizations.”

“The idea that VCs know their industries better than the entrepreneurs is almost always ludicrous.”

“Almost always the competitors have a little impact on your progress as an entrepreneur, right? It's usually distraction, paying attention to them.”

“There are a lot of really smart, competent execute operators executing against really stupid ideas. And they're running into a brick wall and the team thing holds presuming that the team will figure out a bad idea. An idea is bad and innovate and get to a good…”

“How you finance your company is a big determinant of how much money the entrepreneur actually makes. Now that may not be the definition of success. It might be how big the company is, but a lot of entrepreneurs are out there trying to raise venture capital whe…”

“I think it's not something I really chose. I don't even think it happened. I best guess I have is it's actually like some sort of DNA type thing.”

“This is much more of a downtrend that was frankly predictable and it's a controlled from my perspective on it. It's a controlled scenario where the fed is intentionally shrinking market by increasing interest rates.”

“The reaction that they end up having is saying, Hey we're overweighted venture. We're not going to give any money to new V to VCs for a while. And VCs know this. And so the net result is VCs say, okay, well, it's going to be really hard to raise capital. Let's…”

“You can never scale into profitability or a healthy company with a negative gross margin. Unless it eventually writes itself.”

“A lot of great people who maybe didn't have the risk appetite for entrepreneurship, maybe aren't as insane as you and I are when we do it kind of addictively, are going to come out and build wonderful organizations that we'll be talking about in five or 10 yea…”

“The thing is delegation only works if the team's competent, right? And you have to have both. You have to have a team that's competent and a leader who's willing to let go to scale. You can't have one or the other. You have to have both.”

“Within a team, the characteristics that I think make people really successful as entrepreneurs, all three things that you have in spades, and why you were probably successful despite having no experience in college, it's humility, organizational skills, and wo…”

“That's a 550 person team now. And we provide services to about 15% of all venture-backed companies in America.”

“And I think in a normal, Job as an executive in a company , you really have that breakthrough moment once a month, maybe, maybe twice a month. But the beauty for me is the person who's obsessed with that experience is that by virtue of being part of this bigge…”