One of the best feelings as a founder: Getting a cold email from someone wanting to work at your company.

Avoid tiptoeing around the expectations of others. It erodes the soul. Embracing who you are unlocks your greatest potential! “Everyone’s a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” - Einstein

Frodo explains NFTs to Gollum.. instagram.com/p/CVK066CPshA/

Want to change the world? Build neurodivergent teams! The fastest way to solve a problem is outside of the box. Temple Grandin

Good luck finding a pitch that doesn't mention "network effects." Check out andrew chen and his new book #TheColdStartProblem #thinkdifferent #startups #marketnetworks NFX

Correct.

Investors always ask about revenue. If time is our most valuable asset and deflationary asset, should we not denominate success in time over dollars?

"Knowledge+Humility=Stability, Knowledge+Pride=Instability, Humility-Pride=Wisdom." - Dad #stayhumble

"A taste of freedom can make you unemployable." Naval

Building nascent & emerging ecosystems is not a zero sum game.. It will always take a village 🙏🏻🚀

I have to share this brilliant image from Tim Urban at least once every 6 months. The lesson: Stop focusing on the black lines behind you and start focusing on all of the green lines before you. The future is bright.

When a founder takes VC money, there is a tacit agreement that you’ll work together to capture a real market opportunity. Often it is a market that can’t exist through organic growth alone. With cheap capital and missing moats, it will go to the fastest raiser/executor.

One of the best markers for success is actually being able to spot where all the smart people are concentrated, and then make decisions for yourself. All the smartest people I know are in web3 and crypto. What does that tell you?

The founders who'll succeed are already digging into the problem. Ideally they already have a version one. And when you're really working on a problem, your thoughts are inevitably about the actual obstacles you're facing now. Latency issues and flaky APIs, not TAMs.

"Value your time. It is all you have. It’s more important than your money. It’s more important than your friends. It is more important than anything. Your time is all you have. Do not waste your time." Naval

Nick Huber 100%. I always recommend this book to the "everything is horrible" crowd. None of them ever reads it.

Now is the best time to be alive. I'm grateful for this moment and for the entire history of life on Earth that led up to it.

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway

For context, I am pro-science (it is sad to say that I have to declare this upfront) and our family foundation, the Pershing Square Philanthropies, is a major funder ( ~$100m to date with more to come) of scientific research, but something has gone really wrong with science and our country when

They cut Mike Trout. The greatest baseball player of our generation. The story you have never heard and the lesson to learn: Back in 2008, I was a high school junior. I was an up-and-coming baseball player and my first big break was an invitation to the USA baseball team