QUOTES

Don't try to be all things to all people or you're going to be nothing to anybody.

It'd be one thing if we tried and we gave it our all and we just weren't good enough. I'd be salty as hell, but it would be an outcome that I could live with. But if we felt like we could've gone for it all, we could've pushed harder, and we didn't — I don't think we would live with ourselves in that outcome.

Follow-up was the key to everything. Relentless follow-up. Relentless.

You don't necessarily want everybody to know what you're doing. I think there's a human instinct to say, 'Hey, look at me. I'm doing this great thing. Isn't this cool?' But, actually, in business, it's better if the competitor doesn't understand or doesn't see you.

Do one thing and do it better than anyone else.

Most people can be quite content with the status quo, and they're not going to keep pushing to innovate. You have to have a personality where you are constantly discontent if you're going to keep pushing things forward.

You don't want to be rigid in your thinking. You want to be open-minded, you want to be flexible, you want to be scientific about it. If new evidence comes along that disproves your theory, then modify your theory.

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.

I think you're going to see individual founders without large teams creating very valuable companies that solve real problems for people.

Don't let money be one of your major goals because if it is, you end up living a shallow life.