If you’ve invented something new but you haven’t invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business — no - Peter Thiel

However, anyone who doesn’t own stock options or draw a regular salary from your company is fundamentally misaligned. At the margin, they’ll be biased to claim value in the near term, not help you create more in the future. That’s why hiring consultants doesn’t work. Part-time employees don’t work.

Some people are strong, some are weak, some are geniuses, some are dullards — but most people are in the middle.

There’s no reason why the future should happen only at Stanford, or in college, or in Silicon Valley.