An entrepreneur should prioritize solving a real problem over refining the original idea, which often evolves significantly.

“the point is that these ideas are fleeting the idea your idea it's a bad one i don't know why it's a bad one and you don't know why it's a bad one but i guarantee i've never ever seen a successful company ever that's successful the way their original idea was”

Maintaining a healthy relationship among co-founders requires shared values and a commitment to prioritizing the partnership over individual arguments.

“The lesson I learned is I mean, first of all, Jay, I was lucky. And a lot of people when I say I was lucky, they think, "Oh, you were at the right place at the right time with the right idea." And I said, "Well, maybe." But there's something I was much luckier about.”

Founders should commit to trends that last for decades because building a successful business takes significantly longer than expected.

“it's good to take a a trend that lasts 10 years, 20 years because you have time to grow into and do a lot of mistakes and building and just you have to generally believe it in this trend versus falling glitters because it's going to take longer than what you think as a leader, as a human”

Building a successful company requires focusing on execution and solving tangible, sometimes unsexy, problems rather than just pursuing viral growth.

“It's really about execution. And that's the thing. I feel like that's the thing that I saw maybe in like Sal and I growing up was like you've got to put in the work. Even after everything that I have, I show up every single day and I work.”