Michele Romanow

School teaches you how to be perfect — how to go and get 100% on an exam. I had to unlearn most of the things I learned in school, because that's not what startups are about. It's about doing things at about 60% right but executing faster than anyone else.

Andrew and I went to Wall Street and we got 200 no's — 200 debt investors who said this will never work. Now all those people come back and they're like, wow, you've built a category. Yeah — this is what it feels like to build a category: everyone laughs at you at the beginning.

We have completely eliminated this bias — there is now no question that if you are working from home, you are actually working. I think this will put women ahead 50 years, because now it's totally normal to go pick up your kid and do a call.

we don't want at the you know for all of history people have the people with capital have decided what got built and now we're trying to shift that balance of power

there's only so much ownership to go around so I have to give up ownership so that the frontline individual contributors and the whole team can have more

we are not setting the expectation that this will be easy like this is going to be war time for at least the next 90 days if not more