I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.

No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

Obsess about the quality of the product.

In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years.

Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.

Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.

I had become an arrow of sound aimed at the most terrible creature in the city.

I have wrote my name in hell, ” Brian McFee had said as he was dying on the sawdust of the floor in the Bent Ridge Tavern.

Reading like prayer remains one of our few private acts.

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

If I don't see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It's very visual.

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.

I always feel pressure. What I don't have is fear. But pressure, there always is, and whoever says otherwise is lying.

There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong.