Follow-up was the key to everything. Relentless follow-up. Relentless.
In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game. The challenge is to figure out what game you're playing.
You can diddle-daddle through life, and just kind of sleepwalk, and then die, or you can live life, you can embrace life, you can have big dreams, and go all in and find your passion.
[On not selling his business] If you lose your baby, you lose purpose, then you lose purpose in life.
We're all nerds who've spent the last 20 years of our lives just coding and making little things for the world, and the idea that you could teach AI how to go make things, and have everybody have an AI that can help them make things and feel the wonder of that, it's pretty sick.
Which problems am I passionate about solving? Which problems can I spend the next decade of my life fixing? Because if I'm not interested enough in it to spend a decade fixing it, it's probably not worth pursuing.
If you're not bound by conventional thinking you can come up with some clever new way of doing it.
The best story always wins. The best principles for a great story are originality, hardship, and transformation.
We build on other people's ideas. An innovation is actually taking two or more things that were already well known and putting it together in a new way.
The people that make things that are a reflection of themselves — that's the most sustainable form of creation.
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