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“You learn things as you have to learn them.”
“You can always connect the dots backward, but you can never get them forward.”
“You want to interact with customers directly with the product as often as you can.”
“Adjusting from the mindset of being an employee to being a business owner took time, and getting comfortable with conflict and confrontation and making changes that weren't going to make everybody happy took some time.”
“Don't do things the way that you think they should be done, or the way that you're told they should be done. You have to do what's right for you. And you have to figure out how to be yourself in the world.”
“When you're a CEO and you're responsible for the health and the performance of the company and the people in it, you can change everything. It is all in your control.”
“Everything that we make has to be really comfortable, it has to be really versatile, and we will go anywhere in the world that we can source the best version of a product.”
“You can do anything, but you have to do it.”
“You have to hire people that you trust and respect so that you can manage them with trust and respect.”
“There are so many different ways to be involved in the excitement, learning, growth, and the journey of a startup without being the founder or the CEO. So I would try to talk yourself out of it, talk to friends who you trust and respect, and get them to try to talk you out of it. And if at the end of the day, if you can’t be talked out of it, good luck, you gotta do it.”