If you know where you are going, you have this sixth sense about if everything you do along the way is lined up with that.
Building a company is so much like racing a sailboat.
Paul Otellini, the former CEO of Intel, I worked with while I was still with VMware. I knew Ram Shriram through the tech industry.
When you race a sailboat, the selection of your crew is just completely paramount. It's impossible to be an effective skipper if you don't have the right people working harmoniously in the right roles.