What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

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

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

If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.

Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.

I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

I think because of the iPhone and the fact that we now have a ubiquitous internet, our creativity in the startup space is 10 times different. Every single industry, every single market, is going to be technology-driven in some way. There's an infinite opportunity for startups because now you can go and solve problems that previously looked like they had nothing to do with technology.