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If they had been on the job, I would have gone and done something else because the opportunity wouldn't have been there. But I saw a gap in the marketplace and I said, "We should do something that lets you do bigger spreadsheets, that's faster, that takes full advantage of the IBM PC, that integrates the graphing, so you could hit one button t

You can’t understand personal computing and the techno-economic transition it brought about if you don’t keep in mind that it was all about radical entrepreneurs sealing an alliance with returns-hungry venture capitalists.

In no case should a CEO of an early-stage, venture-backed startup receive more than $150,000 per year in salary.

In my study, I found Elad Gil to be one of the most successful angel investors. He has made investments in twenty-four billion-dollar companies—including Airbnb, Airtable, Brex, Coinbase, Gusto, Instacart, Opendoor, Pinterest, Stripe, Square, and Wish—most in the seed or series A stage. Before

I’m forty-five years old at the time I’m writing this and I plan on doing five more years of angel investing—I’m on a ten-year plan. Another two hundred bets and I’m done—then it’s your turn. By the time I’m done with my ten-year plan, I will have invested in 350 startups and my goal is to return $250 million on $25 million deployed—I’m exactly hal

“The fundamental thing that Linear did differently was this idea of being highly opinionated,” she says. “They understood that, the truth is, most companies have no idea what the right software development process is,” Zhan says. “The subset who do would much prefer focusing on building their product than dedicating time to shaping this process—cu