Finding Undiscovered Talent

I feel like a lot of founders forget that everything big starts small.

You can kind of imagine the world getting split into two: jobs that have a very clear set of next steps—working in the military, or working at Starbucks, or working as a manager in a large company, clear jobs—and then you got opaque jobs. And I think starting a company is an incredibly opaque job—it's very unclear what to do next. It's very unclear... See more

I enjoy reading a lot of old news. I find that, at the end of the day, the world moves in cycles, and the tricky thing is the length of the cycle seems to be just ever so slightly longer than the length of the human lifespan—so it seems really new and novel to us, but it's exactly what people went through in prior times. And we don't read old news ... See more

I think if we're able to build a reliable metric for day-to-day progress, it will not only be a great service for creating more startups, but I think it'll be a great thing for productivity—you don't improve what you don't measure.