How do you have quality of life and work-life balance when you're starting a business? You don't. Flat out, you don't.
When you're creating a new business in an area that has never been done, or with some new technology, or new business model — there's no playbook. And if you hire the people from the adjacent industry companies and ask them to go do it, they're just going to go do what they were doing before.
Don't try to be all things to all people or you're going to be nothing to anybody.
A lot of really good innovators are innovators because they experienced the problem before others did.
Find a principle. Don't necessarily have a goal, but find a principle.
There is a part of me that doesn't want to show up for anything, and I have to overcome that every day.
I don't know that I'm good. I know I'm different. But I have this sort of insane belief that I can get good if I try hard enough.
If we keep doing what we were doing before, we're going to be in serious trouble. Because some new company's going to come along, and they're going to have all these new tools. They're not going to have this legacy of crap from the past, and they're just going to do it the new way.
I said to myself, 'I'm going to learn everything I can faster than anyone else, and I'm never going to share with anyone what I'm doing.'
I think there are certain human beings that are gifted with some raw innate processing power that is just greater than others
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