Sense of ownership should not be an outcome of ones title, stock ownership or salary but readiness to take work, passion & accountability.

Let high valuation of past not cause loss of current opportunity. At time high valuation is curse in disguise, live in present, solve future.

In a large company, you create technology around established processes and in start-ups it is opposite.

In product development think best, tone it down to better and tone it down to good & further tone it down to good enough and start with good enough and achieve best with multiple iterations.

Core values and culture are the only common thread for a company that can ensure thatpeople with differen educaiton, upbringing, training, expoure, personality, geneder or racecan work for a common goals

Nothing comes from highly planned and organized efforts but start-up energy and passion and newness cause chaos, confusion and ambiguity and that results into great product, platform, innovation and even socail revolution

Be data driven or just rely on your luck, while luck is important, if you can not measure, you can not control

It is better to be lucky than smart

Founders know what to show at what stage of cap raising. I see early stage raising little yet trying 2 show a lot. Match stage with deliverable.