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

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.

There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.

You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.