The closest thing in my memory to the tech drama on twitter is daytime soap operas popular in my childhood. Twitter = day time soaps for the tech masses. Gossip, deceit, love affairs, (career) murder, and so much more. Available every weekday!

An easy founder mistake is to treat your high quality employees as children. It's easier to tell people what to do and how to think but the best people will not thrive in this sort of environment. A second easy mistake is to employ low quality employees. They must be told what

Been a huge fan of Eight Sleep since the early days and I’m excited for this launch.

I find it funny when people complain about “difficult people”. I feel like my whole life has been focused on how to work best with “difficult people”. It’s my professional moat. In my experience, all truly capable people are difficult in some way. Deal with it!

Take special note of the ratio of engineers to non engineers you are hiring. Not only pre-product market fit but post. In my experience, this is one of the biggest levers on company culture a founder has.

In large organizations compliance is often rewarded more than success. Founders should avoid the challenges of large organizations for as long as possible.

I hate that the startup world puts investors on a pedestal. As a startup founder, it distracted me from serving my users. As an investor, it distracts my companies from serving their users. Investors aren’t the heroes of the startup world.

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