You can’t do everything. I used to think I was good at everything. Turned out not to be true.
Find people that are good at the things you’re not good at. Empower them.
No one is going to work for you if they don’t think you have their interest at heart.
Steve Jobs was crazed sometimes. It’s okay to be hard on people if they see all you want to do is win.
Startup life is Darwinian—there are many ways to die.
Some companies are great ideas, but the leader can’t hold onto the people. Some good ideas die and are born again in another mind or company.
Scaling from 15 to 50 people was brutal. If you can get to 50 employees it’s much easier to get to 500.
Looking at the data gets you better results. That’s why the machine is learning.
Early products are more like projects.
In the early days we thought the customer is not that smart, and we’re the smart ones. We were completely wrong.
Life is the pursuit of happiness.
I like learning and getting better at things. I love competing—I love winning the quarter, month, year.
Oracle is a collection of projects.
Om
