The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.

You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.

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

Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.

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.

Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.