Auren Hoffman Quotes

if you are not careful, you can become what you criticize

not everything that is 'risky' is dangerous ...
and not everything that is dangerous is 'risky'.
(if you can, avoid the dangerous)

This is the #1 thing that most people who work at data companies do not understand. Most people think that they need to hoard the data. But the data increases in value if it can be combined with other interesting datasets. So you should do everything you can to help your customers combine your data with other data. One way to make data easy to combine is to purposely think about linking it — essentially creating a foreign key for other datasets.

two types of wealthy people:

1. have a few brilliant insights and also do a lot of stupid things
2. avoid doing stupid things and have average insights

it is really easy to do the later, very hard to do the former