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The nuclear bomb is when you’re not winning and people want to stay. That’s when you’re doomed.

Winning makes everything easier. Product Retention makes winning easier. Retention always was and still is one of the hardest and most slippery product problems. Obsess over Retention today. (And no, taste is not the ‘only’ moat left. It’s one of many inputs, albeit an imp

"I don't really think about competitors. I just think about making the product as perfect as possible. What we want to achieve is the platonic ideal of the perfect product." - Elon Musk

"Raising Standards" by Frank Slootman

"Steve Jobs had just two classifications: it’s either ‘insanely great’, or it’s ‘total shit’. There is no middle ground, Steve took it away... Mediocrity is the silent killer." - Frank Slootman

"Narrowing the Focus" by Frank Slootman

"People naturally resist focus because they can’t decide what is important. Therein lies a problem: people can typically tell you after some deliberation what their top three priorities are, but they struggle to decide on just one." - Frank Slootman

“What you don't realize until you start a startup is how much external validation you've gotten for the conservative choices you've made in the past. You go to college and everyone says, "Great!" Then you graduate get a job at Google and everyone says, "Great!" What do you

I couldn't find a great resource to point people to when they ask why I don't eat seed oils so I wrote one. It's a 7 minute read on how these oils went from agricultural waste products 100 years ago to comprising 20% of American calories today.

"If you remember one piece of advice about investors, it's that you've got to create some type of competitive situation." - Jessica Livingston, co-founder of Y Combinator

Garry Tan on why the co-CEO model rarely works: "Everything takes longer... You have to wait for the co-CEOs to agree. That makes every decision you have to make much longer... You slow down so much, that your startup will die."

Garry Tan on the job of the CEO: "Can you convince people to follow you? Can you hire, can you manage, can you fundraise and manage investors? Can you drive the vision of the company? Most importantly, can you be the magic that brings all of those things together, to build a