- Working at a major corporate can act as your MBA.
- Access is the name of the game. This is also the hardest piece to achieve.
- Not having a pedigree is so much more valuable than matching a cookie-cutter profile. Different perspectives are more valuable.
- It’s a different type of hustle when you build from the ground up.
- Fundraising sucks. Emerging fun managers have to prove themselves each day. This gives these people an edge and makes them more empathetic to the founders they work with.
- Assessing people is the most critical skill for any VC.
- Understanding people’s blind spots is as important as being able to spot skill.
- So many brands have nothing real behind them. Brand can carry you only so far; in order to be a lasting company you need to have more than this.
- Having defensible science is critical for any wearables company.
- “If there is one thing you can change that can impact the rest of your life in a positive way, it is sleep.”