If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.

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.

We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.

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.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.

The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.