December 15, 2025

My Favorite Quote

Why a line from Jean Renoir keeps coming back to me when I think about founders.

A director really only makes one film in his life, and then he breaks it up into fragments and makes it again, with just a few little variations each time.

— Jean Renoir

The same is true of founders. A founder may keep building different products, but underneath, they are often circling the same question: