Moi Jamri

"I enjoy finding new boundaries and pushing them further because I know I can," he says. "I trust my skills, I trust my body, I trust my abilities, and I trust the environment. That's the combination that allows me to break the records."

Learn to embrace and define failure. I am not afraid to fail. Sports is a movement; you must keep moving

People who've done great things tend

to seem as if they were a race apart. And most biographies only

exaggerate this illusion, partly due to the worshipful attitude

biographers inevitably sink into, and partly because, knowing how

the story ends, they can't help streamlining the plot till it seems

like the subject's life was a matter of destiny, the... See more

You need to be good at some kind of technology, you need an idea for what you're going to build, and you need cofounders to start the company with.

I think another driver of this sentiment and behavior is that chasing scale strips you of some humanity. It puts your head too high up in the clouds. It removes you from what happens in the real world with real people. Pursuing something that can’t scale does the exact opposite: it grounds you. It’s a comforting and healing next act.

VCs are

like car salesmen or bureaucrats: the nature of their work

turns them into jerks.