Max Levchin Team Quotations

The notion that diversity in an early team is important or good is completely wrong. You should try to make the early team as non-diverse as possible.

You can have successful teams where people hate but deeply respect each other; the opposite (love but not respect among team members) is a recipe for disaster.

Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not - cuts down on time-wasting arguments.