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“I personally have no regrets about having taken his investment, and I would do so again in a heartbeat, and I would work with him in the future on other companies if that were ever in the cards.”

“So I think eschewing the next four years of Washington, because Trump is a controversial figure, would be a bad choice for tech companies and for founders in particular.”

“So when there was all of this doom kind of at the beginning of 2015 regarding the VC market and startups failing, not being able to raise new rounds, I was very excited. I thought that that was absolutely great news, and the reason for that is I thought it wou…”

“In my view, was a lot more meritocratic than things in academia and government, where it seemed like if you are very smart and hardworking, it's almost impossible to fuck up in working in tech in Silicon Valley. You will have a good outcome if you are a smart …”

“There are some non-negotiable Things that are just co-founder decisions, and you shouldn't discuss them as a group. It filters through the company by following your vision, your intent for the business, and that's not something that should be up for group disc…”

“I really think that there is enormous human talent being wasted here on highly unproductive activities.”

“We didn't start KDM with a specific product idea and We had some prototype ideas, and we applied for grants from the Defense Department to begin working on them, and so we didn't take VC money from the beginning. We took military money from the beginning to te…”

“When you start getting beyond a handful of people, I think some of the magic numbers were kind of crossing 10 people, crossing more than 15 engineers. Things start to break, particularly related to communication patterns, and it starts to become a different ki…”

“And so don't over optimize for this is how we're going to launch a product and make revenue optimize for how is this going to be one of the most impactful brands of our generation?”