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

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

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.

If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.

If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'what's the party going on right now that I should be going to?

If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.

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.