You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.

Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.

The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.

All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.

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.

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.