My favorite Silicon Valley truism is: The team you build is the company you build. (Credit to Vinod Khosla.) Very soon after founding, most of the work at the company will be done by people who are not you. You will succeed or fail based on the quality of their| Harry Glaser
It is probably not a great idea for the boss to publicly have favorites, but I was known at Periscope Data to occasionally blurt out that the support team was my favorite team. Well, they were. I probably got away with it because support is such a typically underloved function| Harry Glaser
At my first company, I internalized the standard advice to never think about M&A. The consensus was, and is, to just keep growing the business and good things will come. I did that, and I was lucky that good things did come in the form of a $130M acquisition| Harry Glaser