one of the benefits of having an odd name is that it is very unlikely you will share a name with a major hurricane - Auren Hoffman

data business are like the babies of one SaaS parent (like Salesforce), one API parent (like Twilio), and one compute parent (like AWS).

yes -- data businesses have three parents ... they are that weird.

Hire people for things you are good at.
This way, you’ll know exactly what to look for in a candidate AND be able to evaluate that candidate’s work meaningfully.

of all the salespeople I have worked with in the past, I can basically rank order their success on how hungry they were to win