If you treat the future as something definite, it makes sense to understand it in advance and to work to shape it. But if you expect an indefinite fu… - Peter Thiel

If you treat the future something definite, it makes to understand it in advance and to work to shape it .

College students can become extremely skilled at a few specialties, but many never learn what to do with those skills in the wider world.

Talented people don’t need to work for you; they have plenty of options. You should ask yourself a more pointed version of the question: Why would someone join your company as its 20th engineer when she could go work at Google for more money and more prestige?

Startups operate on the principle that you need to work with other people to get stuff done, but you also need to stay small enough so that you actually can.