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.
Paul Otellini, the former CEO of Intel, I worked with while I was still with VMware. I knew Ram Shriram through the tech industry.
Building a company is so much like racing a sailboat.
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.
