In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.
The most important thing is to get on the right horse.
My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy
The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.
There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you’re right.
Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t understand it. I think it’s too weird, I think it’s too unusual.’
Innovation doesn't come from the big company. It never has and never will. Innovation is something new that looks crazy at first glance. It comes from the 19-year-olds and the start-ups that no one's heard of.
In short, software is eating the world
In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day
Innovation accelerates and compounds.
My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.
You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.
We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.
People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.
If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.
Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts
You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.
Learning to code is the single best thing anyone can do to get the most out of the amazing future in front of us.
Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.
The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.
I don't waste time being depressed.
Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.
Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.
A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.
The great companies get built by their founders
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