what is a great exec? my draft definition: 1. pushes paces. company moves significantly faster because of her 2. helps make better big decisions 3.… - Auren Hoffman

Price is important.
It is doubtful the meter would have taken over the world if Napoleon decided to charge a small tax every time the meter was used.

Harvard is an asset management business cloaked as a college.
but if you are a start-up, do you want VC money funded by Harvard?

What kind of people make the best startup founders?

my thought: People that follow 35% of the rules.

We all know that people that follow 100% of the rules make terrible founders … as the rules are often wrong and inhibit innovation.

But people that follow 0% of the rules also make bad founders. those people really live outside society.

Great founders know which of the rules are super important to follow and which rules are ok to break.