If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion, or jealousy.

 It’s high-agency people—founder mode, whatever you want to call it—but it’s people who take responsibility for doing the job the best way possible.I would summarize it in two words: Curate people. And the philosophy that I have going forward in my current company and all subsequent ones is that I only want to work with geniuses.

I only want to work with self-motivated people. I only want to work with low-ego people. I only want to work with people who are builders and engineers and artists, and are at the top of their craft, and that’s all there is to it. You just have to be willing to curate people.

There are 3 kinds of people: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and occasionally, someone who doesn’t know what happened.

FOUNDER + SALES PERSON

Person to take something from 0 to 1 is the founder- can hold the entire problem in their head and make the tradeoffs and understand why each component is where it is. Steve Jobs was one of these people. Elon Musk is probably another one. But usually you see a two-person team: one person who’s better at selling—although it helps if they have some builder background so they know what they’re talking about—and one person who’s better at building, but it helps if they have a little bit of a seller bone because they’re probably going to be recruiting the other builders.