And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.

Blitzscaling is always managerially inefficient - and it burns through a lot of capital quickly. But you have to be willing to take on these inefficiencies in order to scale up. That's the opposite of what large organizations optimize for.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.