My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.

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

Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

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.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.