startup founder

“If they take you in a different direction, like early on, it's like, it really doesn't cost too much to go explore it. I think it becomes more costly when you have an organization and like different people you need to manage. But if it was just you and the co-…”

“The attributes that tend to select for founders who end up building the scale businesses tend to select against people in some ways that scale particularly well in different dimensions. And one of the ways they don't scale well is, is quite that posture on how…”

“What if I look like an asshole is a fundamentally egomaniacal question. It's a terrible question to ask. The right question to ask is what's it going to take to win?”

“And if you are a founder and you're not out there just like representing yourself and your company every day, you're, or as much as possible, you're doing it wrong. And so you still need to charge money. But I think the best founders I know, even if they're no…”