Tushar Agrawal

“And by “tell the story right,” I mean be a good storyteller: Open with a hook. Lure the reader from one line to the next. Start in the middle of the action. Create compelling characters. Set the story around a central conflict. If you don’t have conflict, you don’t have a story (or a hook). And who would read that?”
― Wes Bush, Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself

“There are people who talk about operating experience and there are people who say it’s about risk-taking or process, or due diligence, but it’s about none of that. People have gut feelings about things and there are lots of ways that they rationalize themselves into their investment decisions. Very few people are willing to take the risk and fund some of these things that turn out to be crazy large, whether it’s Amazon (which was a book store), Google (which was the 27th search engine), or Genentech (which really was just a science project). None of those things in 20/20 hindsight were rational decisions you would make. It takes risk-takers to do seed investing, not risk managers.”
― Grace Gong, How to be a VC: LEARN FROM TOP SILICON VALLEY INVESTORS ON HOW THEY BECAME VCS

“ROSE: I love you, Jack.

JACK: No...don’t say your goodbyes, Rose. Don’t you give up. Don’t do it.

ROSE: I’m so cold.

JACK: You’re going to get out of this...you’re going to go on and you’re going to make babies and watch them grow and you’re going to die an old lady, warm in your bed. Not here...Not this night. Do you understand me?

ROSE: I can’t feel my body.

JACK: Rose, listen to me. Winning that ticket was the best thing that ever happened to me. It brought me to you. And I’m thankful, Rose. I’m thankful. You must do me this honor...promise me you will survive....that you will never give up...not matter what happens...no matter how hopeless...promise me now, and never let go of that promise.

ROSE: I promise.

JACK: Never let go.

ROSE: I promise. I will never let go, Jack. I’ll never let go.”
― James Cameron, " Titanic " Script Book

“There is nothing there. At all. How does that make you feel?”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Liberation Unleashed: A Guide to Breaking Free from the Illusion of a Separate Self