If the only thing more important than hiring well is breathing, how do you make sure you recruit the best people for your startup?

You've just closed your fundraising round, and a meeting invite appears. "Monthly Board Update" is the title. Do you feel dread, or annoyance?

Try thinking of your personal character traits as buckets to be filled or emptied. Each trait, such as focus, empathy, confidence, and resilience, is its own bucket.

In startups, most experiments don’t work the first time. If you treat each failed experiment as wasted effort, you can lose inspiration. If you treat it as “just start again,” you keep momentum.

Extraordinary work comes from people who refuse to settle. They might work longer hours, dig deeper into problems, or iterate until something is genuinely great rather than just "good enough." But the one thing they all share is a complete intolerance for mediocrity.

To play the contact sport that is entrepreneurship you need to “collide” with customers, because that’s where the learning is.

You shouldn’t believe everything an investor tells you.