Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.

Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.

My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.

Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.

We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.

Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.