sometimes you meet a super smart charismatic entrepreneur, but you cannot understand their business. 100% of those times, I've lost money as an in… - Auren Hoffman

“We are just too focused and too well aligned,” said no employee ever.

Working at a data company is like being an archivist at the Library of Congress.
You know your job is important but you also know it is a supporting role that helps other people shine.
you don’t write the Constitution, but you help preserve it.

Your data will be much more valuable if you enable it to be joined with other datasets (even if you make no money off the other datasets). This is the #1 thing that most people who work at data companies do not understand.