“Seeing how people at the earliest stages are thinking about how they build, I’m just personally energized by it. And I’m a sucker for trying something bold and new.”
“We invested a lot in making a very nice UI with a graph, a very nice graph. And maybe it’s not important anymore,” he tells Upstarts. “It’s great, but I’m trying to forget it… you either reinvent yourself, or you will be replaced.”
“My hot take is that constraints make you think harder, constraints make you work harder at producing great outcomes, and that innovation with constraints is the ultimate art.”
“I didn’t pattern match very well. Silicon Valley tends to look backwards at the previous generation of founders that made their funds a lot of money, and then that becomes the pattern match for the current generation of what’s hot or not.”
You know, this underlying conviction is the fuel; then we need an idea and a vision, and the resolve to make that vision real, not just for us but something we can share broadly.
2w ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
