The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.

When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.

In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.

Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.

If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.

I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.