Start-ups default path is towards death.

The only way to steer off this default path is through speed. It is the single most important vector for the company. Your team should enable this.

Many successful founders capture this ethos

Specific knowledge is something you learn and knowledge you cannot be trained for. Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now. Become the best in the world at what you do (your specific knowledge) and keep redefining what you do until this is true.

Exploring what is mine, and hopefully it makes you think what is yours.

The personal computer revolution started in 1980s, and took 30 years to reach 1.5 billion units worldwide. The smartphones boom started in 2007/08 and it took almost 10 years to reach ~3 billion smart-phone users in the world.

Phone and computers are limited by number of people. Sensors are not and there are more things than people.

Andy Rachleff in his famous class at Stanford “Aligning Start-ups with their market” teaches that a common misconception is that technology disrupts markets or companies, but it is not technology, but business models that disrupt markets and companies. Technology is merely an enabler of this new business, a new method to create and capture value.

We all have to make this choice. We have to make it few times in our life. This is my attempt to synthesis broad frameworks I have learnt from Andy Rachleff (Benchmark, Wealthfront) and Eric Schmidt (Google). This has helped me, and I hope the same for you.

Many start-ups are building artificial intelligence products for businesses to use. There are hundreds of machine learning, computer vision or deep learning businesses propping every week.

Everyone has a boss. Someone said this, and is true.

You are likely to manage people and be managed by someone. If you are a freelancer, it could be your clients. If you are an entrepreneur, it could be your board. Since we will all share this fate, we must try to understand the kind of managers that you might encounter and more importantly, understand the type of manager you want to be.