“As Vonnegut wrote in Bluebeard, never trust the survivor of a massacre until you know what he did to survive.”
“The first sign of trouble was an externally visible one, a symptom that any suitably experienced startup practitioner could have detected: nobody from the early days of the company was still around other than Murthy.” And so will you if you play the startup game.” I’d soon have trickier situations to negotiate than convincing a cop to let me take a cab. “One week into my new Silicon Valley life, and the lesson was this: if you want to be a startup entrepreneur, get used to negotiating from positions of weakness. Scott Weinstein’s unfortunate example was the best advice he (or anyone else) has ever given me, and one that I ignored to my extreme peril.” “In all my experience in both startups and large companies, including and especially at Facebook, I would always prefer- a hundred times prefer- being subject to the rigors of the market, the fickleness of luck, and the whims of users than to navigate the popularity-contest politics of a large company, surrounded by the mediocre duffers who’ve succeeded in life through nothing more than guile and appearances.
“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another.
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