If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.

My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

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.

It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

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