Save the U.S. Postal Service. There is no institution more critical to the next phases of our commerce economy.

Me when someone mistakes “Shopify” for “Spotify”

Feeling energized as hell for our new beginning 🙌 LET'S GO

Nothing like being tagged to a Slack thread with 40+ messages with no context

Starting a business can be painful. You feel lost 97% of the time - the ups and downs are gut-wrenching. I wish I had a cheat sheet of principles for my first startup. So I wrote one. Here are 40+ learnings about entrepreneurship I wish I knew sooner:

"We will either find a way, or make one" - Hannibal

Businesses that sell to other merchants should really do a pre-BF B2B discount 😉

My kind of Black Friday shopping Packlane

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

The concepts / strategy of business isn’t what makes succeeding hard. It’s the emotional steadiness, tenacity, persistence and focus to actually gut it out and will the universe towards an outcome you want.

Still appropriate years later

Dave Chapelle with Elon Musk on stage, and a fight breaks out in the audience #onlyinsanfrancisco

Deathbed Regret: Allowing my quest for more to distract me from the beauty of enough. Ambitious people will chase whatever more is on the horizon. But true wealth is found not in attaining more, but in discovering your version of enough. I will always be grounded by my enough.