The person who's just starting out is probably incredibly enthusiastic and will put everything behind it and work all hours to make it work.
I like living in danger because you're onto something new, you're doing something different, and it's risky. And I don't mind that. It doesn't keep me awake at night.
That moment of magic when something good does happen is the thing I'm addicted to. That feeling of, it wasn't good, it's not good. Oh my God, it's good.
I'm a monopolist. If we were going to build a business, you have to be number one, and you have to have the lion's share of what you're doing.
Being mildly obsessive compulsive is actually a good thing.
Life is more fun doing the journey with other people around than doing it in single player mode.
People talk about, 'Oh, yeah, we rank our engineers by how many tokens they're spending.' Well, let's try and rank people by how much output they're actually producing or how much good work is actually getting done.
I'm not obsessed about time. I'm obsessed about energy management. If you have time, but you have no energy, you're not going to accomplish anything anyway.
Salty just means that you take offense to the very idea of losing.
It's not borrowing money that's the problem, it's involving people who don't understand startups and the pain you have to go through.
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