Elon Musk & Ilya Sutskever ·OpenAI ·20 SEP 2017

The moment your funder's leverage looks like a path to absolute control, your co-founders stop building and start negotiating their exit.

Greg Brockman ·OpenAI ·31 JAN 2018

When you can't outspend competitors, out-trust them — moral high ground is a strategic asset, not a slogan.

Denelle Dixon-Thayer ·Mozilla ·4 NOV 2014

Sometimes the best deal isn't the biggest check — it's the one that buys you back your independence.

David Drummond ·Google ·23 MAR 2007

A build-it-yourself plan is only valid until a competitor's checkbook makes the timeline irrelevant.

Jeff Bezos ·Amazon.com, Inc. ·30 MAR 1998

The discipline isn't in what Bezos optimized for. It's in what he refused to apologize for not optimizing.

Warren Buffett ·Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. ·27 FEB 2009

Buffett doesn't apologize for the loss. He apologizes for the analysis. Those are different things and most CEOs conflate them.